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Presidential Interviews: Harvard, almamater to six United States presidents, sought tofurther the special relationship in July whenK-School professor Marvin Kalb invited eachpresidential hopeful for a televised one-on-oneinterview to be conducted before an audience inthe Arco Forum. Kalb, the Murrow Professor ofPress and Public Policy and former diplomaticcorrespondent for NBC, said that National PublicRadio and Public Television Stations had agreed tocarry the hour-long interviews...
...undertaking. But Negroponte has made believers of much of the corporate and academic establishment. Bankrolled by more than 100 business and government sponsors, he has filled his $45 million facility with a group of 120 gifted researchers that includes some of the brightest and quirkiest minds in computer science: Marvin Minsky, dean of artificial-intelligence research; Seymour Papert, disciple of Child Psychologist Jean Piaget and a leading ( advocate of computerized education; Alan Kay, one of the most influential designers of personal computers...
...many reporters who stake their livelihood on the trust of their sources, the precedent was worrisome. "If I gave somebody my word that I would not quote him or identify him, then I would not quote or identify him, period," says former TV Correspondent Marvin Kalb, who is now director of Harvard's Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "You can't eat off a source's plate and then later say you don't like the food," comments Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh. Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Nicholas Horrock, a former Newsweek correspondent, felt compelled to promise...
...third day, Collins' lawyer, well-known Palimony Specialist Marvin Mitchelson, brought in a pretty scene stealer: Romina Danielson, 23, an Italian-Iranian who said she had been Holm's lover through much of his 13- month marriage to Collins. While Collins glowered, Danielson testified that Holm had called her "my little passion flower" and had murmured, "You're not only sexy but young." Having divulged her story, the little passion flower suddenly wilted and fell to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably. Denying . her tale as "absolute rubbish," Holm said he still loved Collins and hoped for a reconciliation...
Despite such hip-shooting urgency, The Federalist proved so penetrating an explication of the Constitution that 50 years later Alexis de Tocqueville described it as a tour de force that "ought to be familiar to the statesmen of all countries." Almost 140 years after that, Historian Marvin Meyers, now retired from Brandeis University, called it the "most profound commentary on the original nature of the American regime, and the best single guide to the political mind of the founders...