Word: isaacson
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Ashley E. Isaacson...
According to a university spokesperson, Penn is not disclosing any specifics about the search, which is overseen by a non-binding “Consultative Committee” comprised of students, faculty and trustees of the university, in conjunction with the independent executive placement firm Isaacson Miller Associates...
...media has also increasingly boiled issues down to either liberal or conservative, according to Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and former chief...
...excerpt from his book, Walter Isaacson envisions having a beer with Ben Franklin and discussing George Bush's foreign policy. I imagine that Franklin, an icon of democracy--and confirmed opponent of aristocracy and hereditary rule--would scathingly denounce the Administration's imperial ambitions and its upward redistribution of wealth and power. Franklin would also have a good word for France. And he would note the hypocrisy and error of trying to purchase temporary safety by curtailing essential liberties with the Bush Administration's "Patriot Act." BYRON C. BANGERT Bloomington...
...scientific and social pioneer, Franklin was no less intrepid than the explorers. "Every generation should look anew at Franklin," says Walter Isaacson, my predecessor as managing editor of TIME and the author of a splendid new biography, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. "He speaks to us in a contemporary way, and we can learn a lot about our own values by the way we see them reflected in Franklin." In an adaptation from his book, Walter explores Franklin's seven revolutionary ideals in a way that offers remarkable resonance with today's headlines...