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...Lasker said of his classmate. Lasker, who later became a federal judge, noted that he remained close to Weinberger after their undergraduate years, as both pursued careers in public service.While working for The Crimson, Weinberger became well known for his conservative editorials criticizing President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. He was also reportedly proud of securing a backstage interview with actress Tallulah Bankhead.Graduating magna cum laude from the College in 1938 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Weinberger went on to earn a JD from Harvard Law School in 1941. In the six-and-a-half decades after...
...that may require such unpopular measures as highway tolls and increased parking taxes. But in the absence of federal controls, Nickels says, he's ready and willing: "If it's not going to happen from the top down, let's make it happen from the bottom up." --By Margot Roosevelt...
...years as the face of CBS' groundbreaking television news program 60 Minutes; in the spring; in New York City. Over a storied career begun on Chicago radio in the 1940s, the ex-game-show host helped invent the TV interview with a hard-charging approach to subjects from Eleanor Roosevelt to Yasser Arafat. He will become correspondent emeritus, a post he said entitled him to "longer vacations...
...when William Stoughton, Class of 1650—who donated ?1000 to the building of Stoughton Hall—helped convict George Burroughs, Class of 1670, during the Salem witch trials. Schlesinger describes how students were already debating about slavery during Commencement in 1773, how U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, revolutionized the rules for modern football based on his undergraduate experiences, and how University President James B. Conant, Class of 1914, helped pioneer the now-ubiquitous SAT as a tool for determining Harvard’s National Scholarships...
...part of Target officials, and that the investigation had nothing to do with his client?s departure from government. White House officials learned about the arrest Friday night from news accounts, and Bush was asked about it Saturday morning when he met briefly with reporters following a Roosevelt Room briefing by military officials on efforts to combat Iraqi insurgents' improvised explosive devices. "If the allegations are true, something went wrong in Claude Allen's life, and that is really sad," Bush said. "When I heard the story last night, I was shocked...