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...either airbrushed from America's literary canvas or painted with hackneyed strokes. While a smattering of books have attempted to redress this problem, among them Jill Nelson's 1993 memoir, Volunteer Slavery, the lives of these women beg for further elaboration. Happily, Nelson's new memoir, Straight, No Chaser (Putnam; 225 pages; $23.95), and Gwendolyn M. Parker's Trespassing (Houghton Mifflin; 209 pages; $23) provide some of the missing detail...
...value, has a lot more to say about where the S&P 500 is going. Yes, prices relative to earnings on big stocks like General Electric and Coca-Cola are the highest they've ever been. That smacks of mindless index buying, not buying based on value. But Blu Putnam, president of CDC Investments, a money-management firm, notes that blue chips deserve the high P/Es because they have doubled their rate of earnings growth over the past five years. That makes them more attractive relative to the rest of the market, which hasn't seen the same growth...
...25th reunion class of 1972 were given the same honor--Thomas F. Birminghman '72, a state senator since 1970; Jamie Shona Gorelick '72, former U.S. deputy attorney general and current vice chair of the Fannie Mae corporation; and Elizabeth A. Kellogg '72, associate professor of biology and Putnam fellow at the Arnold Arboretum...
...President's Summit comes at a significant moment, both socially and politically. According to recent studies by Robert Putnam, popularized in his article "Bowling Alone," rates of volunteerism in America are down. Although the nuances of the findings have been contested, it is generally agreed that hours devoted personally to hands-on volunteering have dropped significantly over the past 50 years. Many argue that the decline is rooted in government action crowding out individual volunteering by undermining a sense of personal responsibility. We--as a nation but more significantly, as the young and educated of this country--are less involved...
After serving as Littauer professor of public policy and administration, and as academic dean of KSG from 1981 to 1991, Carnesale became dean in 1991, succeeding Robert D. Putnam, now Dillon professor of international affairs. He was appointed provost...