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...Kloppenberg...has, like Donald Fleming, extensive background in European intellectual history as well and will presumably go on to play a role at least somewhat like the role that Professor Fleming has played," Miller says...
...background is in public service, with a particular emphasis on local communities. Before coming to Harvard, he was the president and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a nationwide, non-profit that focuses on community development. In the 1980s, he worked in Boston in the mayor's office...
...interest in science and technology, along with his strong background in finance, will be helpful to the governing body, Rudenstine said...
...against this background that in June of that year, Keith Lindner, then president of Chiquita and one of Carl's three sons in the family businesses, wrote a "Dear Ambassador" letter to Mickey Kantor outlining concerns over Europe's import restrictions. There was little response...
...other doodads--heavy paper, color foldouts--the issue costs $22, but Eggers, who has worked as a designer (and insisted on designing his memoir), argues, "People don't go to a bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background shows in both the physical journal and its self-aware marginalia (for example, its website, mcsweeneys.net offers reviewers a list of phrases--"precious, inconsequential, pointless"--to describe the journal). "Twentieth-century art was concerned with the thingness of things, how a painting is paint on a canvas," she says...