Word: leonard
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Detroit was once heavily Catholic, dotted with parochial schools in well over 100 parishes that served the Irish and East European immigrants who built the city. Of those, the oldest was the University of Detroit, founded as a Jesuit high school and college in 1877. Elmore Leonard wrote theology papers there before the detective novels that made him famous. The school produced Congressmen, state supreme court justices and a president...
...barricades. Opponents of the settlement include silver-maned folk singer Arlo Guthrie and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, author of the so-called torture memos for President George W. Bush. The settlement counts The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan and noir crime novelist Elmore Leonard among its supporters. The deal has many other supporters as well, from disability rights groups to Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the National Grange...
Kennedy School Professor Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard, who taught Kirwan while she was at the Kennedy School, said that he expects Kirwan to be a more transparent administrator than most at Harvard, noting that she turned the state budget into a much less cryptic public document when she took over as finance secretary...
...think Leslie’s inclinations in general would be to say that an understandable accounting is better for some of the players than a cryptic and difficult-to-understand presentation,” Leonard said...
...built a career moving in a fairly logical progression within that domain, developing greater experience the whole way,” Leonard said...