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...University conferred 6,847 degrees at its 348th Commencement, including eight honorary degrees given to luminaries including Commencement Speaker and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Economist Kenneth J. Arrow and Herbert Block, a noted political cartoonist...
...high moral fiber? "I've never seen the administration fighting so hard as they are on this," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., before he watched his steel-import quota bill come up three votes short on a procedural vote that would have boosted its chance of passing. Clinton the economist is fighting the quotas ?- meant to protect U.S. steelmakers from lower-priced foreign steel ?- on compelling grounds: They would almost certainly be a violation of current U.S. trade treaties. And at a time when Clinton pounds the world?s podiums calling for globalization and freer trade (meaning more U.S. products...
...Baekeland, plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...
...This economist has taken an active role in using scholarship to affect change. He is currently studying the sweatshop movement at Harvard and is working to make Election Day an official holiday so more people--particularly the poor--can go to the polls...
...desk is said to be adorned with a plaque appropriate to his position: "The Buck Starts Here!" And so it will be for the former band-man-turned-economist-turned-commencement speaker. This unusual and powerful man has never had a problem with creativity...