Word: foremost
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...academic front, he built the John F. Kennedy School of Government, that while faulted by some for a lack of mission is universally seen as the foremost school of its kind. Bok is also credited with originating the "New Pathways" program at the Medical School, a revolutionary medical curriculum that emphasizes personal skills. He is also widely regarded for shaping the so-called case method of teaching at the Business School...
Playwrights Horizons has become probably New York's foremost showcase for new stage writing. Its second, smaller space is now home to Driving Miss Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal...
...holding one of his first press conferences. Only sportswriters had shown up, one of them carrying a football, which he tossed to Father Theodore Martin Hesburgh, with a request that the priest assume the hike stance. "I'm not the coach," snapped the new leader of America's foremost collegiate football power, "I'm the president!" And he strode from the room. "That happened only once," recalls the 69-year-old Hesburgh, who is now preparing for his retirement; it will come next week, after a reign that is the longest and, by some accounts, the most distinguished...
...spite of the magnitude of his victory, Chadian President Hisene Habre still has problems to solve. Foremost among them: he must reach an accord with Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei, a former President of Chad himself and Gaddafi ally whose forces last year joined with Habre's to help defeat the Libyans. But after an unproductive meeting last week between Goukouni and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who is trying to mediate between the two leaders, the President and the rebel commander reportedly remain far apart on issues ranging from Chad's provisional constitution to Goukouni's role...
Early in the federal investigation which followed, FBI agents ascertained that one person was the possible, and perhaps only, suspect. His name was Dr. John Buettner-Janusch, and once he had been one of foremost scholars in the country, a man at the top of his field and chairman of New York University's Anthropology Department...