Word: reichs
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...throughout his 36 years, the 4'11" Reich has gotten what he wanted. After growing up in a well-off section of upstate New York with Republican parents, he attended Dartmouth where he directed the student government and organized anti-war protests. A summer intern for Robert Kennedy, Reich took over regional student recruiting for Eugene McCarthy's ill-fated campaign after Kennedy was shot. Reich emphasizes, however, that his campaign knowledge is very limited, and he does not intend to get involved beyond a small amount of issue advising to the present candidates. He likes playing the field...
...REICH FIRST GAINED national attention in a Time Magazine cover story about seven standouts of the rebellious class of 1968. Two years at Oxford by way of a Rhodes Scholarship and then three at Yale Law School nourished his interest in economic policy and, through it, public service. Reich says he went into government because "there was a great deal to be done." And while he is somewhat less idealistic now than in 1974, he still believes more bright students should be going into government and is disappointed with the number who go straight into the private sector...
...like to see more dual K-School graduate programs with the Business and Law Schools: "Unlike many countries, the U.S. does not have a high level career civil service of trained people able to implement public policy in a sophisticated was and sensitive to these questions." Towards that goal, Reich is playing a major role in the development of the K-School's new Business and Government Center, which should bring the study of those disciplines closer together...
After clerking for a federal Court of Appeals Justice and spending two years in the Solicitor General's office, Reich moved on to the FTC where he concentrated on protectionism, parallel pricing, and industry trade practices. It was there that he formulated the ideas that have become Campaign '84 required reading and could be a major part of the Democratic platform. He calls his FTC tenure "an extremely important experience," but in order to write. "I needed time to think and the Kennedy School couldn't be a better environment to work...
...Although Reich came to Cambridge to research and write, he discovered teaching was "an added bonus." He had taught briefly at Yale Law School and "had an intuitive sense I'd like it," but not as much as he found he did. "There is something very exciting about students becoming enthusiastic about the same things that I am enthusiastic about." Reich also uses his classes to improve his writing. "In class my ideas are tested, made more concrete, and some are shown to be inadequate." He is considered to be one of the K-School's best teachers and more...