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...entered the race late and precipitately. His answers are sketchy on some domestic-policy issues; Miller has a Washington insider's grasp of issues like education and tax policy, as the Washington Post pointed out in an endorsement editorial last week. Indeed, Webb may be in serious trouble in the primary. A minuscule turnout is expected, less than 5% of the electorate, and Miller has been working his way through the traditional Democratic constituencies--abortion-rights activists, teachers' unions and minorities--like a threshing machine. "We have one candidate who is appealing and undisciplined and another who is disciplined...
...eyes to build an environment around them.” After graduating summa cum laude, Brown earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1958 and then studied art in Europe with Bernard Berenson, an expert on Italian art.“He was very earnest and very serious, and I liked him,” says Henri Zerner, a professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard who first met Brown when they were both studying art in Paris.Following the completion of an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Brown joined the National...
...professional life.“The very thing my father thought Harvard was going to give me, I never found.”But through rowing, Daniloff found a community. A teammate on the lightweight crew team and roommate, Reginald E. Greene ’56 remembers Daniloff as serious, cordial, and courtly. “He is like Ashley in ‘Gone With the Wind.’ He looks a little like him. He behaves like him,” Greene says. Unlike Margaret Mitchell’s characters, Daniloff describes himself as particularly un-romantic...
...tone of the school was not as frivolous as it had been before the war,” says Keller. And because admissions had become significantly more competitive in the 1950s, undergraduates were more taken with books than with women, Keller adds.“We were a pretty serious group of students and not that much of socializers,” recalls Charles S. “Chuck” LaMonte ’56. As restrictive as students may have found the rules, they were often too busy to complain, according to graduates of the College. Students simply...
Summers’ statement on the British boycott evokes echoes of his September 2002 Memorial Church address, in which he excoriated a group of Harvard and MIT professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time...