David B. Schulman Professor Emeritus of Security at Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice where he taught for 15 years, a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Chief, Foreign and Domestic Investigations, Surveys, and Physical Security, U.S. Department of State. Since leaving federal service Mr. Burstein has practiced law, been a security management consultant for various Fortune 500 companies, and worked as a corporate security director. He is the author of nine books on various aspects of security management and investigations.
Anarchist is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle: he has been called both the "Machiavelli of nonviolence" and the "Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare."[9] Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He held a research appointment at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs for almost 30 years. In 1983 he founded the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization devoted to studies and promotion of the use of nonviolent action in conflicts worldwide.
Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus at Harvard University. He started his career in 1960 as an assistant professor at Yale University and then as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming professor in 1967 and succeeded John Fairbank as second director (1972–1977) of Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. He was the second chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977–1980). He was director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs (1980–1987) and, since 1987, honorary director. He was director of the Undergraduate Concentration in East Asian Studies from its inception in 1972 until 1989. In 1993 he took a two-year leave of absence, serving as national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council. He returned to Harvard in September 1995 to direct the Fairbank Center until 1999 and was head of the Asia Center from 1997 to 1999. The Japanese edition of Professor Vogel's book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (1979) remains the all-time best-seller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author.
Lawyer who served as a consultant to Puerto Rico Governor Luis A. Ferré turned artist, his works are on exhibit in over 100 public and private collections. Author of Something To Do With Wings: A Memoir
President of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., since 2001. He was previously a Los Angeles City Councilman who authored the nation's first law prohibiting discrimination against persons with AIDS.
Publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?.
Financial expert and the founder of the Dreyfus Funds. He is widely publicized for being the man who "invented" the commonplace mutual fund through direct marketing to the public.
Businessman, philanthropist, and benefactor/alumnus of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. He was also the subject of articles, debates, TV documentaries, and a biography, entitled "Quiet Diplomat" by Peter Golden.[22] For decades Fisher also served as a trusted advisor to United States presidents and Israeli prime ministers. By quietly forging new ties between Washington and Jerusalem, Fisher pioneered a new era in Jewish activism and politics and was considered the elder statesman of North Jewry.
CEO and vice chairman at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney International from 1997 to 2000. From 1991 to 1997, he was the first vice president, head of banking at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was the chief executive officer at Lipper International. Mr. Freeman is a senior advisor to the World Economic Forum and member of the Columbia University Law School International Institute. He is currently the co-treasurer and co-chair of the Development and Finance Committee of the Atlantic Council of the United States board of directors. Mr. Freeman was granted an Order of Friendship (Orden Dostyk) by President Nazarbaev and the Cabinet of Kazakhstan.
CEO and president of Act III Communications Holdings, L.P, a United States film production company founded in partnership with Norman Lear. In 1999, Lear and Gaba became co-owners of Concord Records, which was founded as a small jazz label in Concord, California in 1973.
Researcher and industry analyst known for his work in the area of collaboration and knowledge sharing and the problem of information overload. Spira is the author of Overload! How Too Much Information Is Bad For Your Organization
Businessman who worked in the video game industry for several important companies. His career started at Atari where he worked initially in the coin-op arcade division and eventually moved over to the home division in charge of platforms like Atari Lynx. Stolar became the first executive vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America where he launched the Sony PlayStation platform. He later joined Sega where he released the Dreamcast.
Entomologist and entrepreneur, he developed a new and innovative formula for the delivery of a safe, effective and convenient once-a-year pest control service. He founded All America Termite & Pest Control in 1982 and grew it to $120M in sales before he sold it to Sears in 1997.
AccuWeather Chief Forecaster, known as "America's Wittiest Weatherman", is one of only a few living persons who has earned both the title of Certified Consulting Meteorologist and the AMS Seals of Approval for both radio and television from the Meteorological Society.
conservative radio talk show host, author and language-learning enthusiast. He is the author of Making People Talk: You Can Turn Every Conversation into a Magic Moment, How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own and How to Not Make the Same Mistake Once. He has also written articles appearing in The New York Times, Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, and the Saturday Review.
Film director, producer, and screenwriter. Lewin was appointed head of the MGM studio's script department and by the late 20s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. Producing credits during this period include True Confession (1937), Spawn of the North (1938), Zaza (1939) and So Ends Our Night (1941). In the early 1940s, he formed an independent production company with David Loew and Stanley Kramer.
Film producer. He and his brother Arthur Loew were the twin sons of MGM founder Marcus Loew. After being elected to the board of directors of Loew's, Inc., in 1922, he resigned from the studio in 1935 to launch an independent production career. In the early 1940s, he formed an independent production company with Albert Lewin and Stanley Kramer.
Film writer and producer best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama. His most famous work is the drama Judgment at Nuremberg, which was initially a television drama aired in 1959. Stanley Kramer directed the 1961 film adaptation, for which Mann received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He created the television series Kojak, starring Telly Savalas. Mann was executive producer, but was credited as a writer also on many episodes.
(1884–1957) was a Russian-born film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as "L.B.", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens".
Three-time Academy Award-winning songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films and television. Evans wrote the lyrics and Livingston the music for the songs. He is the author of the Christmas standard Silver Bells.
American DJ and record producer. Kahn began his music career as a Top 40 radio DJ. His early music productions include “Loves Me Like A Rock," written by Paul Simon, and performed by The Dixie Hummingbirds, for which he was awarded a Grammy. He had an impressive catalog of music and produced artists for most of the major record labels.
Jazz pianist and bandleader. He recorded copiously as a bandleader for Columbia, Decca, King, Fantasy, Vik, and Sesac between 1946 and 1960. After 1960, Lawrence gave up jazz and began composing and arranging for television, film, and stage. He won two Tony Awards in 1961 and 1962.
Classical violinist, bandleader, & recording engineer. Credited with being one of the first musicians to create high-quality recordings & stereo effects in the 1950s & early 1960s.
Award-winning producer who brought punk to Broadway. Vivek started out working for well-known music labels including Mercury/PolyGram, MTV, and VH1. In 2004, he produced his first Broadway play, A Raisin In The Sun, and in turn established the Tiwary Entertainment Group. And the hits kept coming. He produced and financed such groundbreaking work as The Addams Family, A Little Night Music, and both of Mel Brooks’ musicals The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
an attorney and founder of the law firm Broad and Cassel. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 as director of the Economic Opportunity Program Inc., the Miami Chapter of the War on Poverty, Head Start, and Small Business Advisory.
(b. 1918 – d. July 12, 2005). Ehrlich was a justice for the Florida Supreme Court. He was a judge from the U.S. state of Florida. Raymond Ehrlich served as the Florida Supreme Court Justice from 1981 to 1990. From 1988 to 1990 he served as Chief Justice.
(died Jan. 25, 1989) New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll appointed him to the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1948. Later that year, Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt named him senior judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, a post he held for four years until Governor Driscoll named him to the Supreme Court again. He served there until his retirement in 1975. Justice Jacobs was a protege and longtime associate of the Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, who assumed the state's top judicial post after the 1947 constitutional convention that formulated the present New Jersey court system. The two men were major forces in the revamping of the court system and were guiding personalities on the courts in the ensuing decades.
(b. 1930) is an author of several novels and works of nonfiction beginning with, On a Darkling Plain in 1956 to his most recent, I Remember Amnesia in 2004. He is best known for using forged handwritten letters to convince his publisher into accepting a fake "autobiography" of reclusive businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s. The 2005 film The Hoax, stars Richard Gere as Irving and is based on Clifford's book, The Hoax.
was a noted anarchist,[72]folklorist, author and dentist. He wrote for Hippolyte Havel's Revolt and co-edited The Road to Freedom with Harry Kelly and wrote the books Tales Of Mystery: Folk Tales from Around the World and Folk Wines, Cordials & Brandies: How to Make Them, Along with the Pleasures of Their Lore. In an interview in 1978 he said, "The only progress is in the individual, in you yourself; and through progress you better the whole world. And that is as far as you can go. I said that in 1914 to Leonard Abbott and again in the 1920s and 1930s, and I still say it today."
Journalist and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is the co-author of The Last Lecture with Randy Pausch and Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters with Chesley Sullenberger and the author of The Girls from Ames. While working at the Chicago Sun-Times, he received the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award. Zaslow was honored for using his column to run programs that benefited 47,000 disadvantaged Chicago children.
Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Mayor of Windsor, Ontario and became Canada's first Jewish cabinet minister when he became Minister of Public Welfare. House of Commons of Canada from 1945 to 1955 and appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1955, becoming Canada's first Jewish senator. Died, 1991.
President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He took office in September 1994 and retired in August 2007 in keeping with the Federal Reserve's mandatory retirement policy. In 2007, he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, bringing the Seventh Federal Reserve District's perspective to policy discussions in Washington.
A 30-year California civil servant and Dir. of the California Department of Employment (1962–1968) under Governor Pat Brown. An early proponent of minority hiring, he was widely regarded as the most innovative manpower administrator in the nation. He inaugurated the first Manpower Training Skills Centers in the nation in Watts and Oakland; started the first multiservice center to be operated by any state employment service; and developed the first Minority Employment Program, hiring a minority employment representative in all 47 of the state's employment offices.
Main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet. He also was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation. He is known for promoting the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications.
Physician-in-chief of The Feingold Center for Children, the National Birth Defects Center and a medical editor of WBZ radio and television. He has received a New England Emmy Award, authored 178 medical articles, written two books, including Genetics and Birth Defects in Clinical Practice and has been on the faculty of Tufts, Boston University and Harvard medical schools. He was the physician who first described Feingold syndrome (also called oculodigitoesophagoduodenal syndrome) a rare autosomal dominanthereditary disorder. In 1982 he founded the Genesis Fund, a non-profit organization created to bridge the gap between coordinated medical care and typical health insurance coverage. Died, 2015.
Medical director for the Psychiatric Association from 1974 to 1997 and author of the book Changing Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective. He is widely recognized for helping shape and advance the APA during his tenure and was recognized with an award in 1997 by the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists for his longtime support of the AGLP.
ABA and NBA player and is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. He is an eleven-time All-Star, the ABA Rookie of the Year, and an ABA MVP, and he remains the NBA career leader for field goal percentage and the top player in rebounds per game in the history of NCAA Division I basketball.
Men's Crew Temple University. Two-time Pan-American Games gold medalist. In 2008 Kerber became head coach of Lightweight Rowing at Cornell University, where he led the team to four IRA National Championships (2014, 2015, 2017, and 2019), winning IRA Coach of the Year honors in those same seasons. In 2020, he was inducted into the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame.
Ranked #2 in the world at the height of his short career, he is one of the three men to have won both the Australian and British Tennis Championships in one year (following Don Budge (1938), and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974)). In 1961, he won both the Singles and Doubles (with Mike Franks) gold medals at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1976, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Men's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1986.
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