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...Bayreuth opera festival, while preferring to avoid muddying his boots at the annual pig farmers' convention in Schleswig-Holstein. But Sauer clearly has a soft spot for some events on his wife's schedule - in particular, those that involve rubbing shoulders with the Bushes, according to Merkel biographer Gerd Langguth. His natural reserve notwithstanding, the scientist has made a point of greeting the U.S. First Couple during their earlier visits to Europe. And his views of the U.S. are said to have influenced his wife's as well...
...just raw energy; you just saw the man in constant motion. I picture him at one or two in the morning looking over the last proofs of the paper before they went to print,” said Arthur J. Langguth Jr. ’55, who was president of The Crimson when Halberstam was managing editor. “He was such a newsman that if it came to a choice between giving the paper all he had and keeping up with his work in his classes, his coursework would suffer...
...just raw energy, you just saw the man in constant motion. I picture him at one or two in the morning looking over the last proofs of the paper before they went to print,” said Arthur J. Langguth, Jr. ’55, who was president of The Crimson when Halberstam was managing editor. “He was such a newsman that if it came to a choice between giving the paper all he had and keeping up with his work in his classes, his coursework would suffer...
...weeks we would meet with the president of Harvard and it was always David who asked the penetrating questions. He wouldn’t let the administration off the hook when there was some evidence that things weren’t going as they should,” Langguth said...
Described as “ferocious,” Halberstam soon become “the spine of the newspaper” the year he was managing editor, according to Langguth. And even after his tenure came to an end, “he was one of those people who couldn’t stay away,” said former New York Times reporter Adam Clymer...