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When the lawyers at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft moved to new headquarters a few years ago, they brought their old doors with them. That venerable walnut seemed to embody the traditions of the nation's senior firm, founded in 1792. But beyond the doors, their New York City offices are typical...
But with size and wealth have come some other characteristics of the business world: bottom-line thinking, firms that go bust as well as boom and charges of ethical misconduct. "Many lawyers say that law has always been a business," explains Stanford University Law Professor Robert Gordon. "Now it's...
Mason did. Despite his unlimited stock of foreign shrugs and intonations, the rabbi's son was born Jacob Maza in Sheboygan, Wis. He and his three brothers followed their father's profession, but, he confesses, "I didn't feel it. I wasn't dedicated." Assigned to a Weldon, N.C., synagogue...
IN PERHAPS the most comprehensive study of the state of the academic profession in recent years, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last week called attention to the tendency of major universities to neglect teaching while unduly emphasizing research in tenure decisions. "Too often," foundation president Ernest L...
Boyer said that "the greatest responsibilityfor leadership" in recovering the importance ofteaching in educational institutions lies with thelarge research universities, on account of theinfluence they command in the profession.