The news of Bob Novak's death recalled a line of Roy Blount's about a deceased friend: "I was shocked to learn of his death. It was so unlike him." So it was with Bob Novak. He was so relentless in pursuit of his boyhood dreams, so delighted to be ...
We reported last month on the controversy building around the new Ford Foundation CEO, Luis Ubinas. It now appears that we understated the scope of that controversy. As you may recall, Mr. Ubinas had announced in April a McKinsey-style ...
There was a tizzy of speculation in January 2008 when Luis Ubinas was named the new (and ninth) President of the Ford Foundation. His résumé seemed to be of the garden variety: he was young and Hispanic, born in the Bronx, educated at Harvard, an ...
I knew Steve Adams in college. He didn't know me. He was a senior and I was a freshman and our relationship thus became frozen in time. When Steve is 105 years old and I am 102, he will still be the older, more mature presence, the wiser man. Over ...
That sentence may not make belletrists forget "Call me Ishmael" or "Atlas shrugged," but it will do nicely for now. You will remember that the Robertson family had charged that Princeton had repeatedly violated donor intent by misusing funds ...
'Tis the season for annual reports and we now know -- exactly -- who gave what to whom and for what hopeful purposes. This financial transparency provides both a database for scholars and a target for critics. In the dash to the media microphones, the ...
PHOENIX, AZ -- My editor, Jayson Blair, insisted I use that dateline. I'm actually covering the game from a corporate suite here at One Blackwell Plaza in Jacksonville. Not to worry, my friends -- and I use that term warmly, with none of John McCain's ...
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