His grandfather started a law firm in which his father and uncle worked. His father is 82 and has never moved farther than a one mile radius of where he was born. Lemann states when he was born, his life was already planned that he would be a lawyer per his family traditions. He has written magazine articles since the age of 17. A Harvard college graduate, Lemann graduated magna cum laude in 1976.
He served his country in the army and worked as a newspaper reporter before being elected to Congress in 1976 (Al Gore (1948- ). He then moved up to Senate, and afterwards served as vice president under Bill Clinton (Al Gore (1948- ). This was one of his first acts of a leader. In 2000, Gore was selected as Democratic nominee for U.S. president, and ran with Connecticut senator Joe Liebermann (Al Gore (1948- ). He won in popular vote, but lost in electoral votes.
Early Life and Career Kenneth Irvine Chenault was born on June 2, 1951, in Mineola, New York. His parents worked in a dental office as a dentist and a hygienist. Chenault attended the Waldorf School of Garden City, New York. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in History in 1973. Three years later, he graduated from the Harvard Law School.
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. Bush, his three brothers, and a sister grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father, Prescott Bush, was a wealthy investment banker. Bush's mother, Dorothy, came from the wealthy family of a leading Missouri industrialist. After graduating from the private Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, Bush enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Cowell attended school at Dover College, but dropped out at 16. He floated in and out of jobs, sabotaging several interviews for jobs set up by his father. He finally landed a job at his father's company as a mailroom clerk at EMI Music Publishing. He managed to earn a position as an assistant to an A&R executive at EMI in 1979, where he was promoted and given the job of talent scout. Cowell left EMI during the early 1980s to form E&S Music with his boss at EMI, Ellis Rich.
After studying at Bristol University from 1958 to 1959, he finished his undergraduate degree at Nice's Institut d’etudes Litteraires. After several years spent in London and Bristol, he moved to the United States to work as a teacher. He was assigned to Thailand in 1967 for his military service, but was quickly expelled for protesting against child prostitution and sent to Mexico to finish his military obligation. From 1970 to 1974, he lived with the Embera-Wounaan Indians in Panama. Le Clézio earned a master's degree with a thesis on Henri Michaux from the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1964, and wrote a doctoral thesis in 1983 on Mexico’s early history for the University of Perpignan (he is a specialist on Michoacán).He has been married since 1975 to Jémia, who is Moroccan, and has two daughters (one by a first marriage).
He went to Harvard Business School and received his M.B.A. in 1965. Mr. Gerstner has received a number of honorary doctorates from a number of U.S. universities. He married Elizabeth Robbins Link in 1968. The couple lives in Connecticut. They have two grown children, a son and daughter.
Hawking, Stephen, The Universe in a Nutshell. New York: Bantam Books, 2001. 201 pgs., glossary, index, illustrations, charts. Stephen Williams Hawking attended the University College, Oxford. After three years he was awarded a first class honors degree in Natural Science.
From 1961 to 1962, he undertook graduate studies in economics at the Institut universitaire des hautes études Internationales in Geneva. As a 1971- 1972 Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Annan received a Master of Science degree in management. Kofi A. Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving two terms from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006 and was the first to emerge from the ranks of United Nations staff. Mr. Annan received a number of special assignments after he was made Secretary General. Since the terrorist attacks hit the United States on 11 September 2001, he has played a leading role in galvanizing global action through the General Assembly and the Security Council to combat terrorism.
George Caspar Homans was born in the prosperous district of Boston, Massachusetts. On his mother’s side, he was sixth generation in the lineage of that distinguished family, the Adamses of American statesmanship and literature, which includes John Adams, second president of the United States. Entering Harvard University in 1928 to read English, Homans was to spend the rest of his academic career there. He became a junior fellow in sociology in 1934; he was then invited to become a professor of sociology in 1939; and, with a gap of four years serving in the naval reserve, he remained a faculty member until he retired in 1970. In The Human Group (1950) George C. Homans made a major contribution to the deepening of small group theory and research and through this to a growing sophistication of practice with the field of social groupwork.