Word: 50th
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...Recording Academy is a hipper-than-average grandparent. It sort of understands what's going on in music, but it is easily confused, and this year's 50th annual Grammy nominations, announced this morning, prove it. Herbie Hancock and Vince Gill for album of the year? A record of the year nod for Corrine Bailey Rae's Like a Star, which isn't just aggressively dull, but was first released in 2005? A best new artist nomination for veteran singer Leslie Feist? As pop cultural statements go, these are the equivalent of "Who stole my glasses...
...Sure, in fact I just went to my 50th high school reunion in Bayonne, Oct. 30. And then on Sept. 27, we had a big family reunion at the Bayonne Jewish Community Center, so I’ve been in Bayonne twice in the last couple months...
Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, spoke yesterday on American foreign policy at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Five hundred people lined up outside the American Repertory Theater beginning two and a half hours before the event to hear from the noted South African social justice advocate. Hundreds more were turned away at the door. Tutu’s talk, entitled “Goodness Triumphs Ultimately,” denounced current American foreign policy and stressed the importance of the United...
...Ecuador, and he was parachuted in to become the new general manager. This time his Chilean-born wife refused to go with him. She stayed in Switzerland with the children, and she and Brabeck divorced. But there too Brabeck showed his famous persistence. Ten years later, on his 50th birthday, the couple remarried...
...Statistics Department celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a two-day symposium, uniting professors, students, and alums with a shared passion for data sets, regressions, and standard deviations. The event kicked off on Friday morning with speeches from Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, Dean for the Physical Sciences Jeremy Bloxham, and University President Drew G. Faust, among others. The celebration featured panels on how sectors of the field have changed over the past 50 years, and speakers sought to show the impact that Harvard statistics faculty have had within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served...