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...when he first became superintendent. Livingston noted that despite Ketelhohn’s illness in the months before his death, he still enthusiastically participated in many of his favorite activities around Cabot. Livingston remembers Ketelhohn’s dedication to the annual Cabot House musical, which she directs. An avid visual artist and graduate of New York’s High School of Music and Art, Ketelhohn had long designed sets for the shows and insisted on taking part in this semester’s production of “Grease.” “Even though...
...PLAYED MANY roles in Hollywood, but Elizabeth Taylor's latest drama played out in a U.S. court of appeals, which ruled that the actress, an avid art collector, could keep a Vincent van Gogh painting. In 2004 a family sued Taylor, claiming that View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Rmy had been confiscated by the Nazis from their ancestor, who fled Germany in 1939. Taylor insisted the work had passed through two Jewish art dealers without any sign of coercion before she paid $257,000 for it at a 1963 Sotheby's auction...
...Kids are getting coached as well. At Phillips Academy, Gates talked to students in a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a daily class that teaches them how to how to study, read and think more effectively. Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets middling students, those "on the edge of being successful," explains Euel Bunton, principal of Phillips. While results of the program aren't yet in, attendance of AVID students is 90% - a promising sign in a school where chronic truancy has been a problem...
Tiffany M. Meites ’07, a self-proclaimed avid cook who has lived in DeWolfe for three years in part to have access to a kitchen, gave a detailed critique of the buns...
While the avid Harvard football fan was glued to the TV or computer screen watching the NFL draft Sunday afternoon, hoping to see Clifton Dawson’s name appear, Dawson himself was already prepared to start his professional career. By the time the draft was over, he was a member of the Indianapolis Colts. Although the Scarborough, Ont. native was not drafted by any of the 32 NFL teams, a fair share of squads were interested in adding him to their rosters, including the Indianapolis Colts, the Chicago Bears, the New York Jets, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Dallas Cowboys...