Word: legacyism
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When Cory A. Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J. in 2006, he assumed responsibility for a city torn by crime, economic instability, and explosive racial tensions. Booker, an Yale-educated lawyer, ran on platform of reforming the city’s government and reducing crime. Since taking office...
While Rockefeller has bequeathed much to this University financially, more significant still will be the legacy of former Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles, who died this past April. A towering figure in the modern history of the University, Knowles led the Faculty for 12 years and oversaw some of...
Vaillancourt need look no more. Her place in the Harvard women’s hockey team’s history is set, and now she can move on to build on the legacy that her extraordinary season created.
The museum, which opens June 2, has been a consuming project for Alan Gerry. Long ago, he was a high school dropout who ran a business selling and repairing televisions in nearby Liberty, N.Y. But eventually he founded Cablevision, which he sold in 1996 for $2.7 billion to Time Warner...
But then food and gasoline prices jumped, consumer confidence slumped further, and housing prices fell even more. Democrats showed signs that they would end their campaign without going into double overtime, and Bush reappeared onstage, stealing the spotlight by suggesting obliquely that as President, Obama might appease terrorists. The overall...