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...make no mistake, say his friends: Edgar Jr. would love to climb back into the mogul role. He has always loved Hollywood. The grandson of Seagram founder and former bootlegger Samuel Bronfman, Edgar Jr. began his career writing songs performed by Dionne Warwick and Ashford and Simpson and producing small movies. Pulled into the family business in 1982 by his father and made CEO in 1994, he scored wins by pushing premium brands like Chivas Regal and Absolut, and buying and selling Tropicana for a juicy profit. But Hollywood continued to beckon. He dumped the company's safe, lucrative stake...
...addition, he said that Professor James Simpson of Cambridge University has accepted a senior faculty position as a medievalist...
...Simpson, whom Buell called “one of the world’s most eminent figures in medieval studies,” will himself not be here until the fall of 2004. Simpson’s interests include the role of imagination in medieval literature and its impact on medieval culture as a whole...
According to Buell, Simpson got word during the recruitment process that he had received a prestigious two-year British Academy Fellowship—which he would have to give up in order to accept Harvard’s offer. Buell said that the department did not wish to deprive Simpson of the benefits of that fellowship, and so offered him a leave package for next year...
...administration wished to invite a token Republican to prove its liberal reputation is undeserved, it could have selected someone who truly exemplifies a lifetime in service or outstanding leadership. People like Sen. John McCain, Loeb Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox, former senator and former KSG professor Alan K. Simpson or Sen. Olympia Snowe, who delivered a past KSG commencement address, all would have been decent conservative choices...