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DIED. GEORGE SCOTT, 75, booming baritone and founding member of the gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama, who met at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1936 and recorded gospel versions of songs by Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder; a month after winning a fourth consecutive Grammy Award; in Durham...
DIED. SY WEXLER, 88, award-winning producer whose 16-mm, 10- to 30-minute-long educational films--with such sizzle-free titles as Teeth Are for Life, Why Physical Education and Venereal Disease: Why Do We Still Have It?--were a staple of baby boomers' classrooms in the 1950s and '60s; in Studio City, Calif...
Harvard goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris was announced as one of 10 finalists for the 25th Hobey Baker Memorial Award, which honors college hockey’s top player...
Sharon Stone is best known for her roles in such films as Basic Instinct, but last Monday she was honored for her better instincts. On that day, Stone was celebrated by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations as their Humanitarian of the Year award recipient at a luncheon reception and an evening lecture...
Previous recipients of the award include more political figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and novelist Elie Wiesel. Although an actor like Stone seems unlikely company for such dignitaries, Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter called Stone “the embodiment of humanitarianism,” referring to her 10 years of AIDS advocacy work as the campaign chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR...