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Summers called Ellwood “a penetrating scholar and analyst whose work on inequality has had a profound influence...on public policy...
...hale looking scholar with an authoritative manner," wrote Robert van Gelder in the New York Times. "There goes the most objectionable type of Harvard man," fumed an irate New England matriarch. Quoth the editors of Time: "a Boston Brahmin with a bite...
...those who know him best Sam Morison's bark is worse than his bite. At the age of fifty-four, the scholar with an almost forbidding air of formality has mellowed into an affable squire with a Pickwickian sense of humor. Though his main interests are still U. S. History before 1860 and Christopher Columbus, to hear him talk one would think that life consisted solely of sailing, horseback riding, and the tinkle of slender glasses filled with wine. Back in 1917 Professor Morison talked differently. The call to arms saw him enlist as a private, and though he never...
Yuichi Washida, a consumer researcher and M.I.T visiting scholar, discussed the important influence that cute culture has on technology. Young women, labeled “kogals,” are the driving force behind the Hello Kitty genre as well as cell phone culture—the market size for “chaku-melo,” or trendy ring tone services, has reached one billion dollars and is poised to compete with annual cd sales revenue.The range of conference attendees reflected Hello Kitty’s mass appeal. Among those in attendance were anthropologists and market researchers...
...Charles Hamilton Houston was a scholar and an activist who had a tremendous impact on American society. Some have called him the man who stopped Jim Crow,” HLS Dean Elena Kagan said in a statement released yesterday. “[I]n many ways, Charles Ogletree continues the work of Houston today—I’m thrilled that he will lead this new institute...