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...fact, he was moving even before Pelosi acted, he said. Within days of the Democratic victory in November, he had summoned a former member of his committee to return and testify on global warming. "Albert!" he barked sternly when former Vice President Al Gore came on the line. "I'd like you to come...
...Pacino in this movie, and previously you had Albert Finney and Julia Roberts. Are there any people you've approached who have actually said no? CLOONEY: There is one. Bruce Willis turned down the first one. BARKIN: Whose part? CLOONEY: Actually, it was mine. He was supposed to be Danny Ocean, and he did end up doing the second one. I think he regretted not being in the first. But otherwise, pretty much anytime you go to someone with this, they sign on. We couldn't believe Al wanted...
...last round of problem sets and paper drafts of the semester, another Einstein expert was on campus to weigh in on the innovative mind of the renowned physicist. Walter S. Isaacson ’74, former chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor for Time Magazine, spoke about Albert Einstein, the subject of his most recent book, “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday evening. Isaacson, who currently serves as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, told a packed crowd that...
...Research Council, an international academic organization, for his interdisciplinary work in global economic development. From a pool of 31 nominees, Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79 was chosen by a selection committee of current and former council board members to receive the first Albert O. Hirschman Prize. “He is an original thinker,” said Barry Eichengreen, who led the selection process and is a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. “He is iconoclastic, but constructive, and I think...
Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the oldest research center in the country dedicated to African and African American studies, has seen its fair share of greats. And last Friday, the center added writer and critic Albert Murray to its list, awarding him its highest honor, the Du Bois Medal...