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...book presents a rich cast of characters. Here's industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1889 calling the accumulation of wealth "one of the worst species of idolatry" and hilariously praising the virtues of "honest poverty." Here's Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, arguing that when initiative is crippled by high taxes, an individual "will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends." This might have been written yesterday...
...person of unshakeable integrity and loyalty and a deep commitment to scholarship, family, friends, and institutions,” said Zeph Stewart, the Mellon professor of humanities emeritus and Hammond’s close friend...
Razmig R. Boladian KSG ’03 received the fellowship this year. He studied at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh...
...from this powerful demographic force, which will run for decades. Indeed, the stock market's steep fall over the past two years has made some traditional age-wave investments cheap again. Pharmaceutical stocks like Pfizer and Wyeth, and financial services stocks like Citigroup, despite its Enron-related woes, and Mellon all make the cut. The real zip, though, is likely to be in less obvious places, and Charles Baird, chairman and founder of the private equity firm North Castle Partners in Greenwich, Conn., believes he has tapped into something big. Baird has invested $800 million in what he calls "healthy...
...authored by Bowen and the Mellon Foundation’s James L. Shulman, the book’s criticism of professional-style recruiting and commercialization in college sports has generated much controversy and even more readership in administrative offices like Lewis’ across the country...