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...PICK ON FAMOUS PEOPLE?ALAN GREENSPAN IN THIS BOOK, NEIL DIAMOND IN THE PAST. I've had surprisingly nice reactions. I wrote a column making fun of Neil Diamond's lyrics "'I am,' I said/To no one there/ And no one heard at all/Not even the chair." I said it was one of the worst lyrics ever written. The column became The Book of Bad Songs, which I dedicated to him. A few years ago, he was playing South Florida and invited me to his concert. Which I didn't go to because a) I couldn...
...solar system. But when the New Horizons probe finally takes off from Cape Canaveral?as early as next week, if all goes well?it will be heading for something else entirely. "This little misfit is now central to our understanding of the origin of our solar system," says Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and lead scientist for New Horizons...
...PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES, by Alan Ayckbourn...
Cramer, who was the outgoing president of The Crimson at the time, wrote an article criticizing Alan Heimert ’49, then the influential chair of the English department and a former History and Literature teaching fellow, for misleading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...reception was closed to the media. Massachusetts Hall, home to the president’s office and the central administration, turned out in droves for the event. Nearly all of Summers’ right-hand men and women attended, from Donella Rapier, the vice president for development, to Alan J. Stone, the vice president for government, community, and public affairs. Provost Steven E. Hyman was also present. Deans from each of Harvard’s schools attended the reception. Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, and David Ellwood, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, were among the first...