Word: friendships
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...Bernstein and David Kazhdan, two Jewish Soviet mathematicians now tenured here, were invited and heavily recruited. The department recruited both professors "because they were the best people around," Mathematics Department Chairman David Mumford says. Bernstein, who was sought by several other universities, chose Harvard this spring because of his friendship with Kazhdan, who had come to the University...
...Best of Friends, Michaelis examines seven friendships. In each case, he displays a conspicuous gift for drawing out his subjects, such as the torrentially voluble, visionary architect Buckminster Fuller, 87, and his friend of 50 years, the laconic sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, 78. Michaelis, a 1979 Princeton graduate, is most successful at re-creating the Ivy League background of the lifelong friendship between George Love, 82, and Donold Lourie, 83. Both men, who went on to become heads of families and the chiefs, respectively, of Chrysler and Quaker Oats, never ceased to view themselves as the golden boys of Princeton...
That is not quite what Emerson had in mind in his 1841 essay on "Friendship." Still, in all seven cases, Michaelis aptly demonstrates what the transcendentalist meant when he said that men are bound "by every sort of tie, by blood, by pride, by fear, by hope . . . by every circumstance and badge and trifle." By Patricia Blake
Early in her career, fledgling Attorney Rikki Klieman made a major mistake. She failed to prepare fully for a simple bail hearing, thinking that her friendship with the opposing lawyer would help her win. She lost. "I learned then," she recalls, "never, ever to walk into a courtroom without knowing everything I could possibly know about my case." Today Klieman, 35, is among Boston's best defense lawyers, in charge of the criminal trial division at the city's prestigious firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart. Says one of the city's top criminal lawyers, Joseph Balliro...
From my own research I think there is absolutely no question that McCloy deserves this honor No American has been more important in cultivating the friendship between the United States and West Germany an alliance which has not only served to preserve the peace in Europe but only served to preserve the peace in Europe but has led to the development of a liberal and democratic Germany To say McCloy has distinguished himself by his insensitivity to human rights as Professor Dershow it has is to exercise a deplorable selectivity in indulgent and historical understanding...