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...Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change,” will finance student fellowships, visiting scholars, and curriculum development in social activism. Gleitsman, who made his fortune by collecting films for resale to television, sold his distribution company in 1986 and began giving away $100,000 awards to social activists each year. Gleitsman died last year at age 76. These awards, known as the Gleitsman International and Citizen Activist awards, will now be handed down by the Center for Public Leadership. The awards have stirred occasional controversy—recipients include Ralph Nader and Jack Kevorkian. Center for Public Leadership...
...political communications at Emerson College, has already logged time at the Republican National Committee (where she learned the art of rapid response during the 2004 Democratic Convention) as well as in the White House. She joined the Giuliani campaign in March and soon earned an employee-of-the-month award. The New Hampshire native won't make it home for the primary. "I'll be stationed in New York," she says. "But I'll definitely remind them to vote up there." There may have been countless cups of coffee since March, but the battle's only just begun...
...Waiting backstage, he would mouth the lines of guest stars like Don Cheadle as the more experienced actor delivered them. "Will was so intent," says the show's creator, Andy Borowitz. "He was like a kid waiting for his bar mitzvah." In 1992, when Borowitz accepted an NAACP Image award for the series and thanked "the next President of the United States, Will Smith," his leading man relished the moment. "I got the feeling he loved it not totally ironically," Borowitz says...
Sophomore soccer standout Andre Akpan has yet another accolade to add to his more than lengthy list of accomplishments. The Grand Prairie, Texas native was recently named one of 15 semifinalists for the prestigious Hermann Trophy. The Hermann Trophy, which is given out by the Missouri Athletic Club, is awarded to the top Division I soccer player in the country, and has never before been presented to a Harvard athlete. Akpan—who led the Ivy League in points, scoring and assists this past season, as well as being ranked second nationally in scoring with a 2.06 points...
...When it comes to design, Mangunwijaya spoke of the need for buildings to be intimately related to their external environments. Says Prawoto: "A building is not an autonomous object but also an emotional and social being." One of his more celebrated commissions, the award-winning Cemeti Art House museum in Yogyakarta, illustrates this well. In choosing neither to reference the imported Dutch Art Deco nor the syncretic "Indies" forms that proliferate in the city center - and by eschewing the predictable Modernist box - Prawoto has made a building that resonates with sense of place while seeming up to date. Its entrance...