Word: jr
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Conservatives were less enchanted. "The education establishment has looked awfully happy lately," says Chester Finn Jr., an Assistant Secretary of Education under Bennett. "We need big changes, and the people running our schools are not inclined to make them." An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal was blunter: "This is the first major blunder of ((Bush's)) presidency...
PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
President and Chief Operating Officer: N. J. Nicholas Jr...
President: Reginald K. Brack Jr...
From the start, the man believed responsible for the unprecedentedly successful--and costly--rogue program is Robert T. Morris, Jr., '83-'85, a Dunster House alumnus and Cornell graduate student. Morris, who is affectionately known as "RTM" by his friends at Aiken Computation Laboratories, immediately drew Harvard into the virus vortex by calling Aiken's Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85 and computer science graduate student Paul Graham the night the renegade program began to spread...