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During a visit to Harvard last month, Bill Gates, Class of 1977, appeared confident his alma mater would soon gain full wireless access across the campus...
Kennedy’s alma mater—Harvard—and several other universities in his constituency would almost certainly face a cut in their funding if the aid were to be reallocated. Boston University received $7.6 million this fiscal year, while Northeastern University gained $7.1 million. Those figures represent some of the largest allocations in the country...
...seems, though, that Bullock just wants to kick his law habit and make a dollar, and Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly Parker); and E.B. Farnum, a hotel owner and Swearengen's beaten-cur sycophant (William Sanderson, Newhart's Larry), and you have a typical--if dysfunctional--horse-opera cast...
DIED. MARSHALL FRADY, 64, reporter who documented the South's social and political upheaval during the civil-rights era; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C., where he had recently joined the faculty of his alma mater, Furman University. The son of a Southern Baptist minister in Georgia, he wrote seven books, including a 1968 biography of Alabama Governor George Wallace, and later became an Emmy-winning correspondent for ABC's documentary unit...
...night, stage actress Elisabeth Volger (Liv Ullmann) suddenly stops in the middle of her performance and ceases entirely to speak thereafter. She is sent away to a country cottage, where she is tended to by a garrulous nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson). Alma quickly develops a monologue with her mute patient and slowly the two women seem to fuse into a single, indistinguishable entity. But a plot summary hardly does justice to Persona, director Ingmar Bergman’s masterwork and one of the most important films of 1960s cinema. Bergman explores the nature of communication, while tangling with threads...