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...John R. David, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, Emeritus...
...well-tested skills as a diplomat may be particularly valuable. "He understands the power centers in Washington," Bush said of Negroponte. "That was code to the intelligence agencies that John is not going to rock the boat," says Leslie Gelb, a former Defense and State Department official and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. "He's not going to try to pound the table and create a revolution. The agencies would blow up anybody who would try. He'll get them in the room, get them talking to each other, and if Bush wants a particular thing done...
...credits his Ph.D. advisor, Joseph B. Keller, professor of mathematics and mechanical engineering emeritus at Stanford, for teaching him that one can think of anything and see something interesting...
...best intellectual case for this argument was made last year by Paul Samuelson, a Nobel prizewinner, a professor emeritus at M.I.T. and one of the most respected economists of all time. Samuelson took aim at the theoretical underpinning of globalization. For its proponents, globalization is the latest proof of the virtues of free trade, for which the case was first made in 1817 by the British economist David Ricardo. Ricardo argued that trade was always beneficial because it encourages nations to specialize in the products at which they are best and import those they are less good...
Howard Raiffa, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, who is recognized as one of the founders of the field of decision sciences, said professors in all subject areas could use the quotations and cartoons from the book to illustrate points in their own lectures...