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...service stationed in the provinces of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, much of the British experience concerns the frontier, where their Haileybury training did not come in handy. As Gilmour notes, “a raja and his court of noblemen were likely to be less impressed by a taciturn scholar from Oxford than by an ebullient officer who was, like them, a sportsman...
...Lucchino’s session in Kirkland, Cosgriff wore a big grin as he clasped hands with the Red Sox president. The rest of the room watched in choked-up silence, hanging onto every word of resident scholar and moderator Peter Emerson’s tribute to Cosgriff, Walsh, and Lucchino. Among Emerson’s remarks was an apology to Lucchino for shedding light on an act of poignant relative anonymity...
...said that her decision to leave Harvard was based on personal reasons. “My husband and I had offers at Harvard, NYU, and Yale, and the Yale package made the most sense for us as a family,” Gerken said.Her husband, David Simon, is a scholar specializing in African politics.Gerken also said that while she was looking forward to Yale, she was sorry to go at this stage in the Law School’s history. “It feels like leaving at the beginning of the story rather than...
...Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “I can tell you from experience that the competition is fierce and the decisions difficult.” Ulrich has served on several nominating committees since winning the Prize.“Carrie Elkins and Jill Lepore are very young scholars with young children. They are an inspiration to everyone who aspires to a teaching and writing career!” Ulrich added.Elkins described her experience teaching, writing, and raising children as “certainly difficult” and “a real juggling act, in many ways...
...Queen's job? There is not much she can do entirely at her own whim. Technically, she could dissolve Parliament to get rid of a Prime Minister she disliked, but it would provoke an unthinkable constitutional crisis if she tried. The great 19th-century journalist and constitutional scholar Walter Bagehot said the monarch had the prerogative "to be consulted, to encourage and to warn" the government of the day, but it is one Elizabeth II never exercises in public (unlike her opinionated son Charles). Yet she still derives power from her twin roles as head of state...