Word: journals
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...political heat was getting to be a lot to handle, and Harvard would be a breath of fresh air. In Washington, Summers told Allan Murray, then a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, that half the people who knew his name were waiting for him to fail at all times. Summers was looking forward to working in a place where everyone would be cheering for his success...
Back in 1988, the Wall Street Journal was calling Summers “one of the brightest and most versatile economic thinkers in academia,” while a flatteringly extensive 1991 profile in the New York Times called him “the rare economist who is equally at home in the ivory tower of pure theory and the down-and-dirty world of policy...
...time of that first Wall Street Journal story, Summers was dipping his toes into politics for the very first time—quietly stepping into the public eye as an economics advisor to the Michael S. Dukakis presidential campaign. Dukakis lost to George H.W. Bush, of course, but in 1991, Summers nevertheless decided to turn his back on academia and take a job in Washington as chief economist of the World Bank. “Brilliant” and “phenomenal,” the papers called him, and under such generous spotlights, Summers began to develop into...
...Joslin study, which was published in the March edition of the journal Diabetes, found a link between low birth weight and the second cause of diabetes: inadequate insulin production...
Meanwhile, Atlanta attorney Patrick J. Flinn, who co-authored a 1997 law journal article about a controversial cryptography patent, said Friday he was “flattered” to learn that Harvard had copied sentences straight from his article...