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HIID, which took shape in the 1960s to provide counseling and expertise to help developing countries improve their economies, included Harvard faculty members as project participants and advisers...
Back in the 1960s, he dropped out of college in his sophomore year to direct TV episodes for Universal Studios for $225 a week. He says he went back to get his degree because he wanted to please his father and because "I had children of my own. They had been grousing as they got older, 'Well, Dad never finished college, and he did fine.'" Spielberg benefited from some advanced placement: he got credit for Amistad and Schindler's List, but he had to write a paper on paleontology. "For some reason," he says, "Jurassic Park was too apocryphal...
...time pursuing charitable projects--he recently helped start a digital library to preserve Yiddish books--and running DreamWorks, the studio he co-founded in 1994. He has already wrapped his next picture, Catch Me If You Can, an adventure based on the true story of a 1960s counterfeiter, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. He is also planning a fourth Indiana Jones movie for 2005. "I met my wife on the second one," says Spielberg, "so the happiest memory of my entire life came from that film. That's why I decided to get involved with the franchise again. There...
...politicians had been paying increasing attention since the Second World War." It was, as Beckett notes, two members of that postwar political generation who were critical to Pinochet's arrest in London. Jack Straw, then the Home Secretary, had visited Chile as a left-wing student in the late 1960s. And Prime Minister Tony Blair, while stressing that the extradition question would be decided solely on legal grounds, found Pinochet "unspeakable" and Allende a "hero." Pinochet liked to say that no blade of grass moved in Chile without his order. In Piccadilly, the neon signs flash, heedless of his existence...
...author's great-grandmother practices "white magic" and tells his mother of the fairies living in the fields, you can see where the door opened for his mother's eventual absorption in ouija and spiritualism. At once the story of a family in crisis, a snapshot of the late-1960s, the diary of an artist in the making, and a meditation on how the past informs the present, "Epileptic" interweaves them all into a remarkable literary whole...