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...scheduled a concert at a stadium in nearby Edinburgh, and Bono, as is his custom, invited pretty much everyone he thought would be interesting to drop by, which explains how George Clooney, Hollywood's leading lefty, and Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and an architect of the Iraq war, ended up in the same room backstage. "It could have been a little uncomfortable," says Clooney. "In fact, I was kind of expecting...
DIED. JAMES INGO FREED, 75, soft-spoken New York architect who catapulted to international fame as the much hailed designer of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, above, in Washington; of complications of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. Freed, an émigré from Nazi Germany who became the longtime business partner of I.M. Pei, designed, among other things, Manhattan's sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. Of the Holocaust Museum's hexagonal, skylighted Hall of Remembrance, he said, "Light is the only thing I know that heals. People at the camps said...
...would become pope benedict XVI began the year behind a desk. Granted, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was no ordinary shuffler of Vatican papers; indeed, he had long been celebrated by Church conservatives as the architect of Pope John Paul II's doctrinal policy and vilified by progressives as the panzerkardinal who defended Catholic orthodoxy with the impenetrability of a tank. Yet Ratzinger's quotidian reality was essentially that of an exalted Catholic Church bureaucrat. Working the day shift at Church headquarters for 23 years meant studying and safeguarding the Gospels, not preaching it. On March 31, Ratzinger was in his Vatican...
...orthodoxy goes, AAAS has never been the same since the departure of its star, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West to the bucolic refuge of Princeton. With him went a peerless academic mind, an architect of intricate and novel theories on the politics and sociology of race that revolutionized our understanding of American society. It is said AAAS will be lucky if it ever recovers from the loss...
...rest of the site. The 265-acre Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain houses a collection of over 14,000 different plants and receives 250,000 visitors a year. Originally Harvard property, it was donated to the city in 1882 to be included in the park system designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. Boston then leased the park back to Harvard for 1,000 years. —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...