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...personal qualities desired are sufficiently rare that only a few people qualify.”Prominent leaders in higher education today include anthropologist Alison F. Richard, head of the University of Cambridge; Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, a professor of philosophy; University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman; and Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and the president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied about include Ruth J. Simmons, who, as president of Brown, is the first African-American leader of an Ivy League school. Tufts University President Lawrence...
...Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Philip A. Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leder’s research eventually focused on cloning and efforts to isolate genes and describe their structure and sequence, Sharp says. Leder counts among his researchers current Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, according to Sharp. “He developed a great department, not just doing all of the brilliant work himself, but having people around him who did brilliant work as well,” Sharp says, adding that over the years, Leder has identified and promoted...
...that range from coping with the horrors of sexual or physical abuse to the banalities of eating dinner as a family or observing curfews. But parents who have taken the courses say they are only somewhat useful. "Nothing prepares you for when the child comes into your home," says Shirley Williams, who adopted two teenagers last fall. Still, a look at how some teens and families have adjusted can offer insight into what it takes to make a new life for these youngsters...
...pilot or neurophysicist, Lamar Stapleton says being in foster care "taught me a lot about life. When push comes to shove, you've only got yourself and your family." And by family, he means his birth family. In November, Lamar and his younger sister Nasia, 14, were adopted by Shirley Williams, 61, a single parent in New York City's Harlem who had already raised five of her own children...
Recently one of the smartest people I know said, “Surely, I won’t like that type of movie.” I responded: “You will love Airplane and need to see it. And don’t call me Shirley...