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The elevator doors opened into a cavernous room in an underground tunnel outside Geneva. Out came the eminent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in a wheelchair as always. He was there to behold a wondrous sight. Before him loomed a giant device called a particle detector, a component of an incredible...
It was an answer characteristic of the affable Pieroth, 55. A scion of West Germany's pre-eminent family of wine merchants, Pieroth is a model of can-do spirit. Despite the immensity of the task before him, he is confident that, once unshackled, the East Germans will build for...
Bathed every evening in colored lights and gleaming like a stack of silver dollars, the 48-story CenTrust Tower became the pre-eminent landmark on Miami's skyline in the booming 1980s. The tower was visual testimony to the success of CenTrust Bank, which grew out of near failure seven...
No one can say the warning wasn't loud and clear. Loud, anyway. There was the eminent economist Charlie Sheen, strutting through Wall Street, the movie, only to find himself lost in his penthouse, staring out at the city and wondering, "Who am I?"
The problem goes something like this: the only reason any young professors want to come to Harvard is to have a chance to study with the pre-eminent senior scholars here. Tenure from within is a chimera at Harvard, and most junior faculty members know that. With very few exceptions...