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...master, Diana L. Eck, is leading the American Academy of Religion (AAR) as it challenges the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department over the visa revocation of high-profile Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan. The academy is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate...
...Bill Ford, great-grandson of the auto company's founder, take on this responsibility when he could have left it to hired professionals? It helps to understand that he is a man of epic contradictions. His family practically invented the auto industry, not to mention blue-collar consumerism. Brilliant, cantankerous Henry Ford made the first mass-produced car, the Model T, and paid workers enough so they could afford to buy one. That makes great-grandson Bill industrial royalty: he comes from a competitive, dynastic clan that cannot be separated from the nameplate on your Mustang. But he also...
DOES BEING HENRY FORD'S GREAT-GRANDSON MAKE CHANGE EASIER? Perhaps there is something to that. This is a long-term path we're on. I'll be around here for probably the rest of my life. I may not always be CEO. But I'm not leaving the Ford Motor Company. I care deeply about what this place looks like in 20 to 30 years...
...native Cantabrigian, Forbes’ Harvard roots ran deep: he was the great-grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, class of 1821, and his father was an art history professor and the curator of the Fogg Art Museum...
...Church was for me what basketball was for other kids,” he says. The grandson of a preacher, he says nearly everyone expected that he would follow the family profession...