Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert D. Levin, Robinson professor of the humanities, presented the first lecture of Literature and Arts B-54, "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel," for a second time to a crowd of several hundred...
...deposition--it would be perfectly legal. Even if they were referring to the deposition, it would depend on how specific the advice to misrepresent the truth was. "It's not suborning perjury to say you shouldn't volunteer something," says Northwestern University law professor Paul Robinson. There are reports that Lewinsky said on tape that the President told her, "There is no evidence, so you can deny, deny, deny." But you are allowed to urge a witness to deny something that is untrue. And Clinton's lawyers could argue something got lost in Lewinsky's casual paraphrase of his remarks...
That change of fortune reflects the revolution that Chenault and CEO Harvey Golub have quietly wrought at American Express (1996 revenues: $16.2 billion). Golub, 58, took command in 1993 after directors dumped James Robinson III for turning the company into an unwieldy financial supermarket. Golub promptly lopped off the brokerage, investment-banking and life-insurance units that Robinson had assembled, leaving American Express focused on credit cards, travel and financial services, including mutual funds. Golub, a sometimes abrasive native of Brooklyn, N.Y., initially slashed $2 billion out of a $13.4 billion cost structure, and has kept expenses in line with...
...simultaneously to a decline in traditional driver's education, once a near universal part of the curriculum in America's secondary schools--and a course beloved by generations of high schoolers, since the only way you could fail was by running over the instructor's cat. According to Allen Robinson, CEO of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, 15 years ago, nearly 90% of all new drivers had taken an official driver's education course. With budget cuts chopping the course out of many public schools, that figure is down to 50%, perhaps...
...Robinson questions the use of the courses that are still in place. Having simplified the instruction of reading, writing and arithmetic, the American educational establishment may have finally managed to do the impossible: it has dumbed down even driver's ed. (What's next? Dodge ball?) Some states have backed off mandatory driver training altogether, and elsewhere most courses demand no more than six hours behind the wheel. In what was no doubt an exceptional case, last September a North Carolina driver's ed teacher allegedly told his trainee to chase a driver who had cut them off, then...