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...fact, Reed has thrived on challenges. He took two undergraduate degrees in a rigorous five-year program that had him enrolled in engineering courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in liberal-arts studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh. Reed served in Korea as an Army Corps of Engineers officer, then briefly joined Goodyear Tire & Rubber as a trainee. In 1965 he earned a business degree from M. I. T. 's Sloan School of Management, signing on after graduation with Citicorp's predecessor, First National City Bank. Within five years, Reed found himself head of the bank's notoriously...
...legal brief supporting the President's position was published in the New York Times. Roosevelt also wrote a personal letter justifying the swap to Senator David Walsh, the leading congressional foe of aid to Britain. In the letter F.D.R. cited a questionable historical analogy of his own: Thomas Jefferson's bold action in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase without consulting Congress...
Students with cars and professors for parents can sometimes use their parent's space. Leif F. Hutchinson '90 says he kept a car in his father's parking space behind the Jefferson Labs for use on weekends...
Allen R. Barton '90, who found the trek across the river unbearable, began parking his car in a private lot behind the Jefferson Labs and received a string of seven $5 tickets. The police towed his car twice. To retrieve his vehicle, he had to walk to Central Square and pay a $40 fine...
...most loving of fathers and husbands have failed at governing. By the standards of the ideal husband, men like Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt might have been disqualified. What's really at issue with Hart? Not whether he's the perfect husband. It's whether or not the man is telling the ; truth. Voters need to be able to trust candidates and Presidents, not take comfort in their successful marriages. In the past, candidates didn't feel so obliged to drag wives and husbands and kids onto the platform. Now it's become obligatory. And sometimes it leads to great...