Word: proudest
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...interviews, Bok actually lists among his proudest accomplishments the relandscaping of the University and the improvement of Harvard's grass. The outgoing president boasts that Harvard in the Bok era has had lush green grass for every reunion...
Nowhere was Hammer's rage for fame more obtrusive than in his role as a collector of old masters and Impressionists, which he flew around the world as promotion for Oxy and himself. Hammer's proudest feat was his 1980 purchase, for $5.12 million (a big price then), of a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci called the Codex Leicester, which he renamed the Codex Hammer. It consists of 36 pages of notes on water movement. There is not a single drawing of aesthetic interest among the meager diagrams in the margins...
Already awash in bad loans, some of the largest and proudest U.S. lenders may have to merge to survive. The shaky health of the industry is hastening Washington's campaign to overhaul laws that have governed the financial system for more than half a century. Neil Bush is entangled in a new congressional investigation following the failure of a government-backed investment firm that bankrolled his oil-exploration company. Andrew Tobias on the practical benefits of volunteer work...
...renegades as rulers. The only Etonian orthodoxy is unorthodoxy. Yes, there are still names on the school lists like Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, and the names of sons of foreign rulers, but there are also, no doubt, future Guy Burgesses, George Orwells and other eccentric mavericks. One of the proudest and most legendary of all Old Etonians, after all, was known as Captain Hook...
...native St. Louis. He eventually focused on design because, as he puts it, "What I enjoyed most was putting the pieces together." He was graphics editor for the now defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME in 1985. Among the cover-subject designs he is proudest of are the sun ("Great Ball of Fire") in July 1989 and White House chief of staff John Sununu ("Bush's Bad Cop") in May 1990. If you haven't already figured it out, Arthur has an inveterate love of wordplay. As he might say: Read my quips...