Word: emeritus
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...compete." How was Boies able to recall in court the exact wording of messages sent from one Microsoft executive to another? How did he keep every section of Florida's election code, down to the last subsection, straight in his head? No one really knows. Yale Law School professor emeritus Guido Calabresi remembers when Boies transferred from Northwestern University's law school (he was kicked out for having an affair with a professor's wife, who became the second of Boies' three wives): "He arrived speaking in original, thoughtful, fully formed paragraphs. He knew exactly what he was doing. Absolutely...
...totally committed to his profession that he really pulled a curtain down on anything else," says Mark Solomon, a professor emeritus at Simmons College. "I remember talking to him in the 1960s about what was going on temporarily and he looked at me and said 'I'm totally immersed in my period...
...Anne Pusey struggle together to remember the name of Cogan University Professor emeritus Hilary Putnam, who they single out as an example of a rebellious member of the faculty. He views Putnam's present position as an elder stalwart of philosophy with some surprise...
...retreated to the status of emeritus, and watched his friend begin a decade as the most-watched university president in the nation...