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...Segall says he especially remembers a Class Day speech by John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus...
...Galbraith spoke about his experience working in the admissions department just after arriving at Harvard. He said that admissions decisions were highly dependent on the prestige of a candidate's high school...
...Talk of Many Things" comes with dust jacket blurbs from, among others, George McGovern and John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith, Buckley's old pal and ideological nemesis, helps take some of the partisanship out of the proceedings by calling the book "sheer delight from humor and prose, whatever the political faith." I also am a friend of Buckley's, and I confess to viewing him through the lens of an immense affection...
...November, the group circulated a petition calling for the removal of U.S. forces from Vieques, which was signed by over 300 students as well as 65 professors, including Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West...
...disappearance of their relatives during the occupation. Gusmao immediately jumped off the podium and plunged into the crowd, arguing, calming and pleading until, single-handedly, he had pacified several hundred people. Then he led three of the protesters through the throng to meet Wahid. "It was amazing," says Peter Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, now working for the U.N. in East Timor. "There was this woman politely asking Wahid to know where her husband was buried, and he replied that he would do what he could, and Xanana sat beside them smiling...