Word: shulman
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...Blind since his childhood, Dennis Shulman graduated from Brandeis with honors, has a Ph.D. from Harvard, is a nationally-recognized psychologist, a published author, and was ordained as a Reform rabbi in 2003. Not exactly an underachiever, but Shulman has set himself the challenge of becoming the first Rabbi ever to serve in Congress - and the first blind congressman since...
...year-old Montana lawyer with eyebrows like hamsters who still counts as a rookie since he's yet to win office after 15 tries. Among the Democratic youngsters, there's a former Republican Iraq-war vet in Minnesota, a former ranch hand and Yale Ph.D. in Nebraska and Dennis Shulman, a blind rabbi who easily won the Democratic nomination for the Fifth District in New Jersey. "We keep sending career politicians to Washington, and what do we have to show for it? A big mess," Shulman says. "It may very well take a blind man to show Congress the light...
...book “The Game of Life,” widely considered to be the seminal study of college sports, former Princeton University president William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman observe an interesting dynamic. While minorities in the general Ivy admissions pool benefit from a so-called “mosaic” approach that values racial background, without any regulations on scores required—in so many words, affirmative action—the formulaic principles of athletics recruiting do not have the same degree of consideration...
...Adam Shulman, who works for Boston’s Department of Transportation, also said Boston may turn the parking along North Harvard Street by the Business School into two hour or metered spots in response to resident complaints that commuters are leaving their cars there all day, as they park and walk into Harvard Square to catch...
...increasing preference of athletes for social sciences is surely due in some part to their greater interest in earning high incomes,” Shulman and Bowen write in The Game of Life. “Combined with the perception of many people that economics, in particular, is a partial substitute for a business major in colleges and universities that do not have undergraduate offerings in business....Athletes, and especially those who play the High Profile sports, are much more inclined than students at large to emphasize the importance to them of achieving financial success...