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[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Randall L. Kennedy: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
No full textRandall L. Kennedy is an American law professor and author at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. He specializes in the areas of contracts, freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation, and the Supreme Court.
Kennedy was born September 10, 1954, in Columbia, South Carolina, the middle child of Henry Kennedy Sr., a postal worker, and Rachel Kennedy, an elementary school teacher. He has two siblings, Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., a former United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, and Angela Kennedy, a lawyer at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Kennedy has stated that tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in his household. His father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue Rice vs. Elmore, the case that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina\u27s Democratic primary. Later that decade, fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, his parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C.
Kennedy attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., Princeton University (A.B. cum laude, 1977), the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar (graduate studies, 1977–79), and Yale Law School (J.D., 1982). While at Yale, Kennedy served as an editor for the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982–83 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court from 1983-84. He was admitted to the Washington, D.C. bar in 1983. Additionally, he is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Association
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Cobamides
No full textVitamin B12 is the only known essential human micronutrient made exclusively by prokaryotes. Kennedy and Taga introduce us to the world of cobamides-those cobalt-containing compounds, like B12, that appear to be the proprietary domain of our microbial partners
Populist politics and vaccine hesitancy in Western Europe: an analysis of national-level data.
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in European Journal of Public Health following peer review. The version of record Kennedy, J. (2019). "Populist politics and vaccine hesitancy in Western Europe: an analysis of national-level data." is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz004BACKGROUND: Parents' reluctance to vaccinate their children undermines the effectiveness of vaccination programmes in Western Europe. There is anecdotal evidence suggesting a connection between the rise of political populism and vaccine hesitancy. METHODS: This paper analyses national-level data to examine the link between political populism and vaccine hesitancy in Western Europe. Political populism is operationalised as the percentage of people in a country who voted for populist parties in the 2014 European Parliament elections. Vaccine hesitancy is operationalised as the percentage of people in a country who believe that vaccines are not important, safe and effective according to data from the Vaccine Confidence Project (2015). RESULTS: There is a highly significant positive association between the percentage of people in a country who voted for populist parties and who believe that vaccines are not important (R = 0.7923, P = 0.007) and effective (R = 0.7222, P = 0.0035). The percentage of people who think vaccines are unsafe just misses being significant at the 5% level (R = 0.5027, P = 0.0669). CONCLUSIONS: Vaccine hesitancy and political populism are driven by similar dynamics: a profound distrust in elites and experts. It is necessary for public health scholars and actors to work to build trust with parents that are reluctant to vaccinate their children, but there are limits to this strategy. The more general popular distrust of elites and experts which informs vaccine hesitancy will be difficult to resolve unless its underlying causes-the political disenfranchisement and economic marginalisation of large parts of the Western European population-are also addressed
Beyond behaviour change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the link in this record.This draft chapter/article has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing in Putting Sustainability into Practice
Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption. Edited by Emily Huddart Kennedy, Maurie J. Cohen, and Naomi Krogman. Published in 2015 http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/putting-sustainability-into-practic
The Skybolt Missile Cancellation: An Analysis of Foreign Policy Decision Making in the Kennedy Executive
No full textIn December 1962 the Kennedy administration canceled the Skybolt missile program. Skybolt was an air launched ballistic missile being developed by the United States for use by both the US Air Force and the British Royal Air Force. Its abrupt cancellation caused a short "crisis" in Anglo-American relations. The Tory government of Harold Macmillan accused the Kennedy administration of canceling Skybolt to force an end to their independent nuclear deterrent. The American government countered that the decision was based solely on technical and financial grounds.
This thesis expands on the questions addressed my previous authors of why Skybolt was canceled and why its cancellation became a "crisis." The present author maintains that the cancellation resulted primarily because of changing military policy instituted by the Kennedy administration and because of heightened disarmament efforts. It is also argued that the mechanics of decision making within the Kennedy executive contributed to the crisis atmosphere.Master of Art
Educación Jurídica Internacional
No full text"Originally published as International Legal Education, in 26 Harv. Int'l L. J. 361 (1985). Translation by Public Translator Romina Redondo. The editors gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the author and the authorities of the Harvard International Law Journal in allowing the translation and reproduction of the article."Fil: Kennedy, David. Harvard University. Law School. Institute for Global Law and Policy. Cambridge, Estados Unidos"Publicado originalmente como International Legal Education, en 26 Harv. Int'l L. J. 361 (1985). Traducción a cargo de la Trad. Públ. Romina Redondo. Los editores agradecen la generosidad del autor y de las autoridades del Harvard International Law Journal al permitir la traducción y reproducción del artículo"
Frank R. Kennedy
No full textIn an academic world thickly populated with persons of unlimited ego but of limited scholarly output, Frank Kennedy stands out as a remarkable exception. On the one hand he is the author of scholarly writings too numerous to recount; on the other he is a man of deep humility. A reader or listener soon learns he has strong views which he states with power and precision. Yet his humility is such that he will listen patiently to the most idiotic view of a colleague or student and will kindly help them find their way
Frank R. Kennedy
No full textIn an academic world thickly populated with persons of unlimited ego but of limited scholarly output, Frank Kennedy stands out as a remarkable exception. On the one hand he is the author of scholarly writings too numerous to recount; on the other he is a man of deep humility. A reader or listener soon learns he has strong views which he states with power and precision. Yet his humility is such that he will listen patiently to the most idiotic view of a colleague or student and will kindly help them find their way
Improving the performance of soil-metal structures subjected to loss of soil support.
No full textYears of dependable service and a multitude of wide ranging installations have led to the corrugated steel pipe industry to play a major role in modern engineering technology. Flexible steel conduits play an important role in the form of culverts, storm sewers, subdrains, spillways, underpasses, conveyor conduits and service tunnels; for highways, railways, airports, municipalities, recreation areas, industrial parks, flood and conservation projects, water pollution abatement and many other programs. In recent years developments have been made which allow engineers and contractors the use of conventional corrugated structural plates to design and build structures having larger spans and increased permissible live and dead loads. These structures are generally used for conditions where the depth-of-cover is limited to about 5 to 10 m and the design is constrained by a relatively low, wide-opening. However, in recent years many accidents and sudden failures have been reported on this type of structure. Such failures often originate from large soil settlements, poor soil compacting practices, and frost-thaw cycles. As a result, many different methods have been proposed to eliminate these problems. In this thesis the use of a Geogrid mesh to reinforce the soil surrounding the corrugated metal structure is proposed. It is the belief of the author that this material (Geogrid), which is widely used in the design and construction of retaining walls, will improve the strength and durability of soil-metal structures. The study carried out involved building and testing pipe-arches under shallow depth-of cover. The results obtained from these tests served to compare and document the advantage of using reinforced soil structures in contrast to non-reinforced soil structures.Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1997 .M44. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 37-01, page: 0314. Adviser: J. B. Kennedy. Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1997
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