Word: levins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Teresa's in the morning, then managed the ego of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he took advantage of Giuliani's media entourage to nominate himself negotiator in chief. In the evening, Giuliani called on a stricken crowd at Temple Emanu-El to stand and applaud Neil Levin, the head of the Port Authority, who died helping his employees escape. Reverting to tireless cheerleader, he ended his day at Yankee Stadium watching Roger Clemens pitch against Tampa...
...Wilsons are also the subject of Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House (Scribner; 608 pages; $35), a beautifully written and researched volume by Phyllis Lee Levin, whose last book was on Abigail Adams. The great Wilson partnership, which began with their marriage in 1915, grew stronger as his fame climbed. When he was stricken with debilitating strokes in 1919, Edith obscured his physical state and quite literally took over the presidency. Foreshadowing Hillary Clinton, who designed and presented a health care program that failed abysmally in part because of the resentment over her assumption of presidential authority, Edith misplayed...
...believe we must commend a leader at another institution of higher education: Yale President Richard C. Levin. Though he did not close the university, he took steps beyond providing counseling services and sending out a mass e-mail. Like Summers, Levin also e-mailed the university to express his sympathy and grief. He contacted the community just an hour after the attack, however, and not in the mid-afternoon. Levin extended Yale’s shopping period by a week so as to compensate for the time students may need to reflect, mourn and pray. He kept university dining halls...
...EDITH IN THE BUNKER: Edith Wilson ran the executive branch, if not the whole government, during Woodrow Wilson's last year and a half in office, after he had a debilitating stroke. Former NYT reporter Phyllis Lee Levin tells the story of the Wilson presidency in "Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House" (Scribner; October 11). PW gives it a glowing starred review. "A beautifully written and impeccably researched account...These issues have been discussed in more than one previous history, but no other writer has gone as deeply into the archives to marshall the strong proof that Levin presents...
During his tenure as TIME's managing editor, Levin added, Walter "directed a renewal of our flagship publication and instilled in it new purpose and energy that will help ensure its leadership far into the future. He also oversaw TIME's growing franchises, including a classroom publication called TIME FOR KIDS; a successful technology magazine, ON Magazine; and the TIME.com online site...