Word: distinguishedness
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When I Was a Young Man starts and finishes with chapters that detail Kerrey's discharge of a promise he made to his dying father?that he would discover how his father's brother died in World War II. This, he says, is the story he wanted to tell. But...
Carter isn't the first lawyer to go over the wall into fiction, but he may be the most distinguished. A third-generation jurist, Carter clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1980, and he went on to become the first tenured black professor at Yale Law School. At...
Linsky observes that leaders "do themselves in as often as they are done in by others." The authors caution that "with the adrenaline pumping, we can work ourselves into believing that we are somehow different, and therefore not subject to the normal human frailties that can defeat ordinary mortals on...
Chaka?fighting writer, Japan aficionado and Cleveland native?is back in the land of the rising sun for Isaac Adamson's second hard-boiled mystery, Hokkaido Popsicle (HarperPerennial; 329 pages). Banished to the northern island's remote Hotel Kitty for punching a film director in the face, Chaka is left...
The breadth of membership was just one aspect that distinguished this committee from its predecessor, the Mills committee, which met from 1999 to 2000 and recommended increased educational opportunities in lieu of higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers.