Word: roberts
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...long tapped to take over the center-left from Prodi is Rome mayor Walter Veltroni. He talks the lofty rhetoric associated with American-style democracy - of change and courage - and cites Robert Kennedy and Barack Obama. But it is telling that Veltroni did not challenge the older Prodi for the right to lead the charge against Berlusconi in 2006, though he was far more popular. Instead, he waited his turn. Now that his moment is arriving, Veltroni should resist the temptation to cut deals with the leaders of small parties - the Mastellas of the left, right and center...
...Tale is a cause for rejoicing among all those who love briny confessionals and barroom brags. De Monfreid was a man who condemned shoes as "cursed things," and his arch and irresistible narrative is appropriately free-spirited. It has textures of sea-roving picaresques from The Odyssey to Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as of the journals of European explorers in Africa and Arabia, from Burton to Livingstone and T.E. Lawrence...
...Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., a pathology professor at HMS and Folkman’s first thesis student and postdoctoral fellow. “He truly touched my life in wonderful ways and encouraged in me a love of science which is what legacy is all about.” Robert J. D’Amato, an associate professor of ophthalmology, was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Folkman Laboratories and saw Folkman as both a father and a colleague. “He taught me always to return patients’ calls and find some way to give them hope...
...statement released Wednesday, Harvard spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said there are “no current discussions about or plans for change” in the ownership of the land, which was given to Harvard in the 1927 will of former Boston mayor Nathan Matthews...
...Yale registar’s office.Professors said they find themselves unable to depend on the ratings as much as they would like.“It was more effective in the past when the number of students who filled it out was higher,” said Robert A. Lue, executive director of undergraduate education in molecular and cellular biology. “Despite pleading e-mails...we’re only seeing 60 percent of the class. What 60 percent is that? It’s hard to interpret the results.”Last year, Lue overstepped...