Recruited to run for governor of New Jersey in 1910 by a Democratic machine boss who thought he would be easily controlled, the prof schooled the pro in practical politics, passing a reform agenda that curbed the power of parties and corporations alike.
Educated at Norwich high school, Prof Pearce studied psychology, physiology and philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford, during the 1970s.
One of the study's three authors, Harvard business school prof Amy Cuddy, gave a hugely popular TED talk on the subject in 2012, and in 2015 wrote a bestselling book called Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.
In 1983 he created the Computer Classroom with a business school prof, training corporate clients to use spreadsheets and word processing software.
All of which left VW with a marketing quandary only a business school prof could love: Should it go full-speed ahead in pushing the Rolls, knowing it will aid BMW when it takes over the brand?
So, when I read that the Georgetown University law school prof had a new book out, I quickly got my copy.
Its pastor, the Rev. D. Z. Cofield, was my first prof in grad school and became nationally known that semester when he officiated the memorial service for legendary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
She is Nathalie Isabelle Huppertt), a high-school prof de philo who in the course of the film is to lose her husband, her mother, her publishing career and her relationship with a favoured pupil.
At present in England's schools, Prof Smithers says, there is a system in which a form of undeclared selection takes place.
"And they go to good schools while Brazilians go to bad schools," says Prof Pastore.
The choices of white parents were likely to be the driving factor behind school segregation, Prof Burgess said, because white students make up 87% of school rolls.
