Word: reichs
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Lecturer in Public Policy Robert Reich, one of Dukakis's economic policy advisers, now says of Kennedy School faculty members, "We are his brain trust in residence." Dukakis won over students and colleagues at the Kennedy School through a combination of accessibility, teaching ability and commitment...
...rolled up his sleeves and worked hard at this place. There was not the slightest hint that he was using it as a convenient respite," Reich says...
...speaker is Richard von Weizsacker, current president of the Federal Republic of Gernmany. His father, Ernst von Weizsacker, was Hitler's state Secretary in the Reich foreign ministry and a member of Himmler's personal staff. Most significantly, he was the man who informed Adolf Eichmann, the official in charge of Jewish extermination, that there were no objections on the part of the German foreign ministry to the deportation of thousands of French and stateless Jews to Aushwitz. He was also the man who rejected Sweden's offer to accept Norwegian Jews about to be sent to Nazi death camps...
...reunions also provide alumni with a chance to see how the nature of Harvard student life has changed. Peter Reich '52 said that he did not think the University had changed a great deal since his graduation 35 years ago. But he added, "I think the kids are a lot less independent today," recounting how his generation had to struggle through the war era and depression...
...employees start at the minimum wage of $3.35, which for a full-time worker amounts to only $6,968 a year. For that reason, McDonald's has been singled out as evidence of the booming service economy's inability to create dignified and meaningful new work. Says Robert Reich, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "Compared to the old blue-collar jobs that have been lost, these jobs represent a serious setback...