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...Nevertheless, Leder recalls late night pitstops to Elsie’s, “a sandwich place which made a terrific roast beef.”After graduation, Leder enrolled in Harvard Medical School where he got his M.D.Given the socio-political climate of the sixties, Leder chose to join the National Institute of Health (NIH) to avoid the draft. Once in Bethesda, Leder wound up in Marshall W. Nirenberg’s lab, where he and others established the critical link between messenger RNA and protein, allowing scientists for the first time to predict protein sequences encoded by mRNA...
...excellence in journalism was further recognized when he served as the director of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, Daniloff stumbled upon his profession. After graduation, Daniloff had hoped to go into government service, but a series of rejections set his plans askew. He first tried joining the Navy to fulfill the draft requirement, but he was rejected because of unstable blood pressure. Then he tried joining the Foreign Service, but he failed the entrance exam—an event he partially attributes to the shoddy education in American history he received as a government concentrator at Harvard.Daniloff...
...University of Pittsburgh, Whitman worked as a senior staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), and was the first woman to serve on the National Price Commission. Whitman soon landed a spot on the three-member CEA and yet another historical tag as the first woman to join the Council.Convinced of the veracity of The Washington Post’s Watergate coverage, Whitman eventually left the Council.But 20 years later, Leonard Downie, who supervised Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would be the groom’s father at her daughter’s wedding.ALL BUSINESS ABOUT FAMILYAfter...
...Does this diplomatic initiative, which includes a new US offer to join the Europeans, Russians and China at the table, stand a chance of succeeding? Or is it all rhetoric...
...dramatic reversal of the Bush Administration's longstanding taboo on talking to the Islamic Republic, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled Wednesday that the U.S. is willing to join three key European Union countries at the negotiating table with Iran, on the condition that Iran verifiably suspends its uranium enrichment activities. As Secretary Rice said, "President Bush wants a new and positive relationship between the American people and the people of Iran - a beneficial relationship of increased contacts in education, cultural exchange, sports, travel, trade, and investment... The United States looks forward to a new relationship between our peoples that...