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...love to see Cornell win," says Isaac Kramnick '59, chairman of Cornell's Government Department. "Yes, I know that I went to Harvard. It's even my 25th reunion year, but I'm not torn at all between the two schools. It's about time that the Cornell basketball team...
Wolf brings collections to Countway which enable historians to research medicine from its beginnings to the present time. At its inception, medicine was essentially based upon the natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching...
...December 1982, the White House set up a task force to draft a plan to overhaul bank regulation. Headed by Vice President George Bush and Regan, the group includes Volcker, FDIC Chairman William Isaac and C.T. Conover, the Comptroller of the Currency. After a year of study, the task force reached a general consensus that the power to examine and regulate banks should be consolidated in a new federal banking agency, with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency forming its nucleus. Under this proposal, the FDIC would concentrate on insuring bank deposits, while the Federal Reserve would focus...
banks, the five largest banks in each of the Reserve System's twelve regional districts and all state banks. But at a contentious 90-minute task force meeting, Regan, Conover and Isaac argued that Volcker was getting too many concessions, and the session ended in a stalemate. Said a disgusted Bush: "You guys aren't pulling together...
...night's heroics were performed by a tiny sergeant of the Army's Strolling Strings. Without flinching, she fiddled a mere two feet from the ear of Violin Virtuoso Isaac Stern, who would play Beethoven later...