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...Abernathy.Nearly five decades after McClintick launched his journalistic career at Harvard radio WHRB’s then-headquarters in the Dudley House basement, his reporting sent waves across Harvard Yard.‘PAST PRESENT FUTURE’As a freshman, McClintick threw himself into WHRB—but mid-way through sophomore year, he decided to focus on academics.“I nearly did myself in by spending too many days and nights at WHRB and not enough reading Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau,” he recalls.He joined the U.S. Army intelligence branch after graduating from Columbia...
...became bureau chief.In 1978, following a year at Yale Law School, where she earned a master of studies in law degree on a Ford Foundation fellowship, Greenhouse was assigned to the Times’ Washington Bureau and became its Supreme Court correspondent. With the exception two years in the mid-80s during which she wrote on Congress, Greenhouse has covered the Supreme Court ever since. In 1998, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Court.“She paved the way for other female journalists,” says Washington Post publisher and chief executive officer...
...their arguments.”Second, Roberts seems to be making a concerted behind-the-scenes push for greater unanimity on the Court. Of the 46 decisions issued by the end of last month, 30 were unanimous. In a commencement speech at Georgetown University Law Center in mid-May, Roberts cited “clear benefits to greater consensus on the Court” to support his personal belief that “if it’s not necessary to decide more to dispose of a case...it is necessary not to decide more.”The results...
...every male graduate from a four-year college and 1.3 females for every male undergraduate in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.In fact, the gender balance on college campuses in Agassiz’s time was more even than it would be in the mid-20th century.Even before Agassiz’s death in 1907 and shortly thereafter, the number of women undergraduates was nearly on par with the number of male college students. Women who were born in 1891, for instance, were slightly more likely to attend some college than men born that same...
...Bilmes says, “You see the connections between the big billions and trillions and the hundreds and thousands.”It was the big trillions that brought Bilmes into the spotlight this past year, when her estimation that the Iraq war would cost America, as a mid-range projection, $2.2 trillion, made headlines across the world. “It’s impossible to evaluate the cost and benefits of the war if you don’t have an accurate picture of what the cost is,” she says. Bilmes collaborated with Nobel...