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...freshly cut rose to her blouse during her time as director of Dumbarton Oaks, said the research center’s current director Alice-Mary M. Talbot. Laiou “charmed” even the most imposing and volatile senior members of the history department with her staunch confidence in her intellectual abilities, said history Professor John Womack Jr. “Every day I come down that hall in Robinson, I think for a happy second I may see her door open and her well again, there in the light,” said Womack, whose office faced...
...direct ties to Hillary Clinton, having helped raise money for Clinton's 2000 Senate bid and later earning Clinton's endorsement when Gillibrand ran for office in 2006. New York's other Senator, Charles Schumer, reportedly was a staunch advocate for Gillibrand to succeed Clinton in the U.S. Senate...
...book of watercolors, full of musketeers and damsels in distress, and romantically titled The Clang of Steel. When he was twelve, Andy staged a memorable performance, Lilliputian-style in a theater that he made himself, of the battle in The White Company, the Arthur Conan Doyle drama of a staunch medieval company of soldiers, which N.C. had illustrated. The old playroom castle still sits in Andy's studio, and the toy soldiers are billeted in a light box in his bedroom. "I've always loved miniature things," he says. "Maybe that's why I turned...
President-elect Obama's Cabinet appointments are sending a powerful signal that change is on the way. His choice to run Veterans Affairs, retired general Eric Shinseki, was a brave critic of the Iraq war and is a staunch advocate for wounded vets. His pick for Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Shawn Donovan, has presided over a huge expansion of affordable housing in New York City. And his nominee for Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu (announced Monday), is a Nobel-winning physicist who preaches the gospel of efficiency. It's hard to imagine a starker contrast with their counterparts...
...tower and the real world. In spite of seeing the dark side of politics, Hoffmann maintained hope for the future and instilled in his students a sense of social and political responsibility. As a result, during the turblent 1960s, Hoffmann encouraged students to be politically engaged and was a staunch defender of students’ rights and anti-war activities, such as the 1968 surge on University Hall. Today, many of those students look back at Hoffmann as an inspiration for their own teaching and scholarship. “He stands as...what we came to Harvard for, for what...