Word: thacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRM: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett...
...turn 75 this month, is the ultimate troubleshooter: fair- minded and tenacious, self-confident yet self-effacing, and utterly dedicated to the musty idea that a private citizen should engage in public service. Soon after World War II, he joined the old-line Wall Street law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. For decades, his partners have been granting him leaves so that he can devote long, unbillable hours to difficult tasks. His career is a monument to the concept of pro bono publico. As compensation for his current assignment, he has asked...
...agency seeks to disqualify unscrupulous contractors before they can even bid on city projects. The School Construction Authority, created in 1989, has identified 52 contracting firms linked to crime or shaky financing. "Some agencies review companies with suspicious records, but we demand disclosure of potential bidders," says Thomas D. Thacher, the SCA's inspector general...
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as a school for boys who carried six-guns, read Kipling and mostly went on to Yale, Thacher has evolved into a modern, co-ed institution whose students enroll at colleges all over the country. Of this year's 62 seniors, 28 are headed for Ivy League schools...
...Belying Thacher's image as a country club for rich white kids, the student body is diverse (27% are minority, mostly Asian), and ethnic relations are remarkably smooth. "Everything's so homogenized here," admits alumnus Derrick Perry, 24. "It's like I didn't realize I was black until I went to Dartmouth." Sexism is probably the most divisive issue. Women, including faculty members, complain that the school remains encumbered with "old boy" history. Yet if Thacher continues to thrive, it is probably because of its throwback traditions. "If there is any single quality we look for," says admissions director...