Word: roberts
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...there is a "30% chance we're going to get it wrong" on any issue, as Biden did on the President's economic plan, but the Vice President's arrant candor is a quality to be appreciated, not mocked. Teddy Awards are also hereby bestowed on Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates, who courageously joined this Administration despite being, respectively, a fierce political opponent of the President's and a Republican. Upon arrival, Clinton showed passionate intent to reform long-neglected foreign aid programs, a non-headline-grabbing crusade that is essential to the military's counterinsurgency strategy; Gates took...
Suddenly, a toga-clad figure (Pfohoser Robert M. Cross ’11) appeared and delivered this oration to the crowd that had gathered below...
...other eight members of the University-wide implementation committee are Harvard College Library Director Nancy M. Cline, Harvard University Library Director Robert C. Darnton ’60, Harvard Kennedy School Executive Dean John A. Haigh, Harvard Business School library administrator Mary Lee Kennedy, FAS Dean of Administration and Finance Leslie A. Kirwan ’79, Harvard Medical School Dean for Operations and Business Affairs Richard Mills, and Harvard Law School library vice dean John G. Palfrey...
Weitzman remembers sitting next to Robert M. Solow ’44, a Nobel laureate compatriot at MIT, when Solow recalled a book he had read several decades...
...best to turn the act into the stingy—and straight-up racist—bill that was eventually passed. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had to be watered down at the last minute by Senate GOP leader Everett Dirksen and then-Senators Hubert Humphrey and Robert F. Kennedy ’48 in order to avoid a successful filibuster. Then, as now, the structural requirements of the U.S. Senate were the enemies of social progress...