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Wood earned a masters of public administration, a masters, and doctorate in government and political economy at Harvard, after completing his undergraduate work at Princeton. According to his wife, Margaret, he taught government courses at Harvard from 1954 to 1957 and his students included now-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy D-Mass...
...father just believed that every person he came across counted and he taught me, as a new politician, that remembering people’s names is much less important than taking the time to get to know them,” said State Sen. Margaret Wood Hassan D-N.H., one of Wood’s daughters. “[He] taught us all that being smart was never enough, it was being good...
...aggressive campaigner for Kerry/Edwards, Casey’s coattails are widely credited with helping to pull the party’s losing presidential ticket to victory in the Keystone State. Seeing Casey’s strength, Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., who chairs the Democrats’ Senate campaign committee, persuaded the pro-lifer to run for the Senate next year against Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn.—a formidable, but extremely right-wing incumbent. And in doing so, Schumer muscled aside a fellow pro-choice politician, who also happened...
...glad to report that I am joined in this openness to private investment by Democrats like the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, and even the godfather of Social Security himself. In a 1935 letter to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, wrote of his hope for the “promises of private investment and private initiative to relieve the government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled.” Indeed, President Roosevelt unsuccessfully proposed adding “voluntary contributory annuities by which individual...
...warned that willy-nilly lending by Chinese banks will wallop the economy. "I see a market filled with pitfalls," he says. "China is deceptive. Growth doesn't necessarily translate into profit." During a February luncheon in Hong Kong, Shan shocked the crowd by challenging Nobel-prizewinning economist Amartya Sen for praising Mao's "barefoot doctor" program as a sound way to provide health care to the poor. Shan, recalling his experience in the Gobi, noted that the government trapped people in the service in deplorable living conditions. Says he: "If there's a record that needs setting straight...