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...STACY SCHIFF, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), is writing a book about Franklin's years in Paris
Franklin's life had profoundly varying chapters. Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer Stacy Schiff, who is writing a book on Franklin's years as emissary to France, tells how America's first Renaissance man charmed the French into becoming an indispensable source of money and military might in the war for independence. "We wouldn't have a country today were it not for France and the wizardry of Franklin," she says. Author Claude-Anne Lopez, who writes for us about the women in Franklin's life, began her long career as a Franklin expert by translating his correspondence from French to English...
...knew that [the national hour-cap] was going to happen at some point,” said Meigs Professor of Gynecology Isaac Schiff, who heads the department. “We began to respond to it and anticipate it. Our residents are excellent residents; we thought it would be better for our own well-being if they could be alert and not exhausted and provide the best care...
...It’s a hard job to hound him,” Dunphy said of Harvey. “I think he’s a terrific player, very good scorer and a constant mover out there. Those are hard guys to defend. But I think Schiff is a pretty good athlete and the size seemingly helps us as well...
...technology that underlies these applications, known as customer-relationship management (CRM), is a subset of data mining and can be used by any organization that needs to quickly analyze massive amounts of data. "More and more often," says Michael Schiff, vice president of Current Analysis, a business-intelligence firm based in Sterling, Va., "you see it becoming 'X'RM, where the relationship being managed could be with a customer or supplier or stockholder or, to go out on a limb here, terrorist...