The Washington Post, May 23rd, 2003
In academic circles, Vartan Gregorian is sometimes referred to as the Gregorian phenomenon, a handy way of summarizing his 12-page resume: president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, former president of Brown University, former CEO and savior of the New York Public Library, historian, linguist and humanist. Speaking this week about his newly released memoir, "The Road to Home," however, Gregorian reached back further, to his humble yet inspiring beginnings as a minority Christian Armenian in mainly Muslim Iran. He remembers being 7 years old and kissing his mother goodbye on her deathbe...
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