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Carrier, who was Coolidge professor of applied mathematics emeritus, had been fighting esophagus cancer since mid-December of last year...
Knowles was preceded by three economists: Lamont University Professor and former U.S. Secretary of Labor John T. Dunlop, Guyser University Professor Emeritus Henry A. Rosovsky, and former Chair of the Economics Department A. Michael Spence...
Famed historian David Herbert Donald was the first to suggest that Harvard should house the Vidal collection. Donald, who is Warren professor of American history emeritus, had become acquainted with Vidal while writing a biography on Abraham Lincoln, the subject of one of Vidal’s best-known novels...
This philosophy has guided Zinn—79-year-old professor emeritus of history at Boston University and one of the country’s most respected and popular lecturers and activists—into a career comprised of truth-seeking and story-telling. Zinn started out as a shipyard worker and joined the Air Force at 21. Later, he began to ask himself “troubling questions” about the war, and soon became involved in the southern civil rights movement. His People’s History of the United States has become a bestseller...
...personal recollections, like Andy Helfer's "Careful," about becoming temporarily homeless after the WTC collapse, or more fanciful reactions to the events. Several of these have a curiously militaristic edge that makes the DC book the most politically conservative of the 9/11 projects. Bizarre on several levels, Marvel's emeritus editor and comics legend Stan Lee contributes a "lost" Aesop fable with a non-too-subtly-chosen "gentle and caring" elephant taking rampaging vengeance on some dastardly mice. 'Nuff said...