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...Tootsie Roll Pops amid a seasonal arrangement of pumpkins. Its neighbor, Berwick Academy, had a less impressive spread: a basket of apples and unopened jugs of apple cider kept lonely company with a welcome book yet to be signed by a single alum. But the top-tier tent village was about much more than candy and pretentious beer. Alec P. Smith, who called the strokes at the University of Richmond tent, explained that Reunion Village is “a really good place for alumnae of schools that are competing to gather and watch.” Stanford alumna Erica...
...disheartened to see the editorial “A Box of Their Own” (Oct. 13). I am a gay alum and I am concerned about your decision to call being gay a “private” matter. Being gay is not a “private” matter in so far as discrimination is concerned. I am not entitled to many of the same rights that heterosexuals are—I cannot serve in the military and still live my life honorably, I cannot marry, and in many states, I am not even entitled...
...magnificent,” and “the single most important [Japanese] sculpture anywhere in the West.” The sculpture was originally bought in Japan in 1936 by the grandfather of Walter C. Sedgwick ’69, who was also a Harvard alum. Sedgwick inherited the piece, and, inspired by a professor of Asian art who was his mentor during his undergraduate years, turned to collecting. He soon acquired the two other pieces. Prince Shotoku was the founder of Japanese Buddhism, according to Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Yukio Lippit...
...foreign markets is always a bit of a crapshoot. "Rule 1 of the global TV market is that each market is different," says Grindon. Comedies, which often get lost in translation or bad dubbing, have been inciting mini bidding wars. 'Til Death, a conventional sitcom starring Everybody Loves Raymond alum Brad Garrett, and NBC's offbeat comedy My Name Is Earl are getting as much as $500,000 an episode, compared with $200,000 for sitcoms five years ago. Touchstone's Ugly Betty is on its second global lap. Based on the wildly popular Spanish-language telenovela Yo Soy Betty...
After decades spent unraveling the secrets of human DNA, Harvard alum Roger D. Kornberg ’67 received the Nobel Prize last week for uncovering the crystal structure of the protein necessary to make DNA more than just a blueprint. Kornberg, who is currently a professor at Stanford University, presented a frame-by-frame view of RNA polymerase interacting with DNA——a conversion that leads to the construction of proteins necessary for life. Kornberg’s discovery, published in the journal Science in 2001, showed in atomic detail the chemical construction...