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...even worked with Johnson, a history professor whose research touches on Africa, to research his 1978 novel The Coup, set in an imagined African nation...
...Staff writer Evan R. Johnson can be reached at erjohns@fas.harvard.edu...
Cox’s father, Archibald Cox, was a patent lawyer, and his mother’s grandfather, William M. Evarts, defended President Andrew Johnson during impeachment proceedings in 1868, according to Ken Gormley’s 1997 biography, Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation...
...prison population--2 million--and a repeat-offender rate of more than 50%. But there is growing evidence that inmates who participate in religious programs while incarcerated are less likely to return once they get out. A 2003 Texas study, done by then University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Byron Johnson in conjunction with the Manhattan Institute, found that only 8% of inmates involved in faith-based activities returned within two years after release, compared with 20% for inmates of similar backgrounds and offenses who had no religious routine. In another study, to be published in this month's issue...
...concern helps account for a surge in enrollment in children's etiquette classes and is transforming the moribund manners trade. "I've been in this business for over 40 years, and I've never seen anything like the current hunger for this information," says Dorothea Johnson, who runs the Protocol School of Washington in the nation's capital. In the past three years, she says, the number of people signing up for her children's classes has quadrupled. But unlike the mini-finishing-school lessons of yore that dwelt on cutlery and curtsies, the curriculum nowadays stresses social skills...