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Harvard writes to my grandmother pretty regularly. She isn't a star academic, although she did attend Temple University and managed to raise seven daughters who all hold University degrees. She's not a celebrity, although when she points out the history of her house in Roxborough, a house my great-grandparents built, it feels like a monument. But it isn't, because Grammy is not a millionaire. Neither is my grandfather, although for some reason Harvard pursues them both with enough vigor for her to remark to me about how sorry she is she can't give. Then...
...SPEAK UP Those who not only join network groups but also stand and deliver before them are in effect advertising their expertise. Wisnik, for example, conducts legal training seminars through the United Jewish Appeal. Attorneys pay a fee to attend the seminars, which raise money for the charity, and Wisnik benefits through client referrals. But what really keeps her going is gratitude. The u.j.a. paid for Wisnik, her parents and her brother to emigrate to the U.S. from Poland 30 years...
...doesn't faze convict-journalist WILBERT RIDEAU that he won't be able to attend this year's Oscars, even though his searing look at the hopelessness of prison life, The Farm: Angola, USA, is up for an Academy Award as best documentary film and will be encored on the Arts & Entertainment Network on March 15 and March 20. "One thing about prison is it keeps things in perspective," says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. "The award would be nice, but it won't change...
Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry E.J. Coreywas unable to attend the meeting because of anout-of-town speaking obligation. But he says thateven if he were in town, he does not believe he isthe proper person to decide Douglas' fate...
Others say they don't attend meetings when theydon't feel expert in the topic beingdiscussed--even when the topic is lesscontroversial than disciplinary action...