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Aalto, a Finnish architect, was “one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century,” according to Emeritus Hooker Professor of Visual Art Eduard F. Sekler...
...Knopf, who edits both Ellis and McInerney. "Writers are always speaking for themselves and not for a generation. I don't know if they want that responsibility. I think it's something that nobody would feel comfortable with unless the ego was completely untrammeled." At least one Voice emeritus has nothing but relief that his term is over. "I think the very idea is narcissistic," says Coupland, whose most recent novel (his 11th), JPod, is set at a video-game company. "I got stuck with the ridiculous label for a while because Generation X had the word generation...
...minute [Summers] came here he talked about patriotism," David Clayman ’38, the group's chairman emeritus, said today. "It indicates that Harvard should not be considered by the public a bed for...people who don't care about their country. It's an American institution...
...decades after he officially retired from Harvard, the University felt it was the right time for Higgins Professor of Physics emeritus Norman F. Ramsey, the man who co-developed cesium and atomic clocks, to be honored at yesterday’s Commencement exercises with an honorary degree...
...president until 1973. In addition to his interests in business and politics, Paulson is also a nature enthusiast. He enjoys fly fishing and bird watching and, since 2004, Paulson has served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy. He is also the chairman emeritus of the Peregrine Fund, an organization devoted to protecting birds of prey in their natural habitats. Before going into business, Paulson earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth, where he was also an all-Ivy football lineman and a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta...