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...Kremer is one of the top young economists in the nation. He's received a MacArthur "genius" grant. President Clinton selected him as one of the nations first 60 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers...
...lack of closets. Truman got his money. (When Ford became President, he was deeply grateful for Truman's home repair, especially for the famous Truman Balcony on the rear of the White House.) And Truman got more: Ford's support on foreign policy, even when Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, though Ford still glows a bit when he recalls MacArthur's "old soldiers" farewell to Congress. Says Ford: "One of the most moving speeches I've ever heard...
...final robbery of the evening occurred in Allston around 8:30 p.m., when a male undergraduate walking between Kresge Hall and MacArthur Hall at the Business School was robbed also at gunpoint. He was robbed of 10 English pounds...
OCCUPATION Architects, the first to win a prestigious MacArthur "genius" grant...
...presidency isn't Gilgamesh, of course, but once upon a time, Americans entertained a subconscious ideal of a president with a Shackleton dimension. We somehow expected a hero and grown-up, even if we almost never got one, and even if a hero - Douglas MacArthur, say - wouldn't always have been such a good idea...