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Broadcast journalist and writer Jim C. Lehrer will deliver the ceremony’s keynote address and receive an honorary degree from the University. Lehrer currently anchors “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS and covered the Senate Watergate hearings with colleague Robert MacNeil—a collaboration that earned the duo an Emmy Award...
...vantage point from which to observe the Supreme Court for many years,” Fidell says. “She has a perspective that students may not get from the faculty.”Since 1980, Greenhouse has appeared regularly on the PBS program “Washington Week” analyzing significant legal events.In 2002, Greenhouse and Lewis became the first non-lawyers to receive the Henry Friendly Medal for distinguished figures in the legal world from the American Law Institute.But Greenhouse’s interests and involvement extend far beyond her profession. “Linda...
...largest international research center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—Domínguez will bring a wealth of administrative and academic experience to his post. He has written extensively on international and domestic politics in Latin America and worked as a series editor for PBS program “Crisis in Central America.” University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who made the appointment, said in a press release that the newly created post was designed to “address an important need at Harvard for leadership, coordination, and oversight in this crucial area...
DIED. Louis Rukeyser, 73, trailblazing stock market broadcaster whose lively analysis and open disdain for professional investors made Wall Street Week, the low-tech TV program he hosted for 32 years, one of PBS's best-rated shows; of multiple myeloma, a rare bone cancer; in Greenwich, Conn. With his tailored suits and wry delivery, Rukeyser became an unlikely celebrity from the world of economics, and PEOPLE magazine called him "the dismal science's only sex symbol." After PBS replaced him on the show in 2002, he hosted a CNBC program until failing health forced him to retire...
...Theodore Jennings (Mac C. Bartels ’09) who inherits his grandfather’s most valuable possession: a desiccated vulture which allegedly belonged to a notorious Cincinnati thug. Against his avaricious family’s wishes, Theodore takes his family’s heirloom to the PBS show Antiques Roadshow to get appraised. Along the journey from his depressing home to public television, he meets an unlikely love interest (Kathleen E. Hale ’09) and overcomes his inferiority complex. Bartels was very engaging as the sarcastic, impenetrable protagonist, shining especially in his poignant apostrophe...