Word: experts
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Appearances by guests like Kennedy accomplish two things, which Broder and the other talk-radio bashers neglect. The common man, who normally has no access to a expert like Kennedy, gets the opportunity to engage in dialogue with the Yale prof. And the Yale prof, usually surrounded by Ivy-League academics, is able to hear what the general public thinks of his book...
...State Department became interested in using Poppe as a Soviet expert in 1948, and a department telegram of that year said Harvard was "anxious to get" him, according to the article...
...Organizing women has been difficult for traditional industrial unions," Harvard labor expert Charles Heckscher says. HUCTW has broken from the traditional labor mold, according to Heckscher. "It has not stressed adversarial, combative tactics. It has stressed self-determination and involvement of people, rather than association with a powerful group," he says...
...article, Wiener writes that the primary focus of Parsons' actions in Germany was Nicholas Poppe, an expert on Mongolian languages. Poppe worked with the Nazis during the war and was banned from the United States, according to the article...
That sense is enhanced in most barn restorations. "Bigger is the whole concept," says Michigan renovation expert David Ciolek, who has rehabbed hundreds of barns around the country. Ciolek creates higher, longer open spaces by a process called trussing. First he rearranges the old post-and-beam construction, then transfers the weight of the roof and hayloft to the outside walls by means of triangular wooden supports. Says Illinois livestock farmer Janis King, who had Ciolek fix up an 1870 barn: "Unless lightning strikes, the barn will be here another 100 years...