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...Conservative Miguel Estrada has blue-chip credentials: a Harvard Law School degree, a Supreme Court clerkship, a stint as an assistant U.S. attorney, and now a partner in a high-powered Washington law firm. Born in Honduras, he'd also be the first Hispanic judge to reach the Appeals Court in the District of Columbia. But one of Estrada's law partners is considered a Darth Vader by the Democratic Party: Theodore B. Olson, Bush's recently confirmed solicitor general who successfully argued W's election case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. Appeals Court has also been...
...Quine came to Harvard to earn his Ph.D. in philosophy and stayed for the rest of his career, aside from a stint as a Navy cryptographer during World War II and his travels around the globe. He was a member of Harvard's prestigious Society of Fellows. He retired from teaching...
Rudenstine arrived at Harvard fresh off a stint as an executive vice president at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prior to that, he had served as a dean and provost at Princeton. The adjustment to Harvard wasn’t easy. Whereas Princeton was a small environment, heavily focused on undergraduates and without many graduate students. Harvard, with its nine graduate schools, was more complicated. There were more players. And true to Gomes’ words, the University president was often the one with the least power...
...native South Dakotan, Tom Daschle went to Washington in 1973, just out of college and a stint in the Air Force, to become an aide to South Dakota?s Senator James Abourezk. In 1978, Daschle was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1986 he moved into the Senate. He quickly gained a reputation for humility and a willingness to compromise. He also became known to his critics as a wolfish partisan, whose strong opinions were only partially disguised by a lamb?s demeanor...
...resume now includes three years with the American Dance Machine, his “graduate school of dance,” and an eight-year stint with Cats on Broadway...