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Harvard’s budding “rhetorical Doctor Frankensteins” learned the tricks of the trade Friday from the first woman chief of the White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably...
...Squad and Method Man, could have been a triumphant return. But if you’re able to tune out the presence of the new guys and party like it’s 1999, “Red Gone Wild” might be just what the Funk Doctor Spot ordered. —Reviewer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...thing is a medical classic. Just follow the cliches - BIG specialist, little old family doctor. Yes, the impressive title might still be a huge deal for some, but it really does seem that the kids in med school now are a little wiser and promise to be less esteem-driven than past generations. That's good because they promise to be more fully orbed, empathetic humans; but it's also bad because they take a lot more time off. The big egos of my generation pushed their owners through quite a bit of extra hard work...
...Though he abandonedmedical school during World War II, don't discount the healing powers of Jacques Courtin-Clarins. The founder of European cosmetics giant Clarins ditched the doctor dream to soothe Paris' war wounded as a masseur and found fans with his home-brewed treatment oils. Named for a character he portrayed in a high school play (he took the name as his own in the 1970s to celebrate his success), the family-owned company helped popularize therapeutic, plant-based skin-care products and grew to include salons around the world...
...slow in learning how to talk. "My parents were so worried," he later recalled, "that they consulted a doctor." Even after he had begun using words, sometime after the age of 2, he developed a quirk that prompted the family maid to dub him "der Depperte," the dopey one. Whenever he had something to say, he would try it out on himself, whispering it softly until it sounded good enough to pronounce aloud. "Every sentence he uttered," his worshipful younger sister recalled, "no matter how routine, he repeated to himself softly, moving his lips." It was all very worrying...