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Which current directors do you admire? -Abigail Hoover, St. Paul, Minn.Usually they are younger directors who are fighting to get good films made-not standard, formulaic Hollywood venal projects. I like [Paul Thomas Anderson] who did There Will Be Blood. I liked him from his earlier movies. I like the films I've seen of Alexander Payne...
...said that he felt associating the brunch with a charitable cause was a selling point for the event. “It taps into two interests that students have, which are public service and fun,” he said. President of the Vestis Council Abigail M. Baird ’08 said she saw another advantage to the clothing swap. “It’s a really great way to experiment with how you express yourself,” she said. —Staff writer Diane J. Choi can be reached at dchoi@fas.harvard.edu...
...even bigger and better.” Endowed gifts are administered centrally by the University, Gergen said, and schools receive an annual payout that usually comes to about 4 percent of the principal. While this is the largest one-time gift to the Center, Gergen noted that Leslie and Abigail Wexner have been the institution’s largest overall benefactors. Leslie Wexner is the CEO of The Limited, a women’s clothing chain. The couple contributes $2.1 million annually to the Center, pledged over a period of nine years, according to Gergen. —Staff writer...
...event was held in honor of the release of a new collection of their correspondence, “My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams,” published last month by Harvard University Press. Some critics have said the book underplays the role of Abigail in refining her husband’s views on women...
...Neither [forward writer Joseph J.] Ellis nor, for that matter, the editors call the reader’s attention to the ways in which Abigail boldly challenged John,” historian Mary Beth Norton wrote in the New York Times Book Review earlier this month...