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...spent his summers working for production companies such as Fox and Sony Pictures Studio. Back on the East Coast, the Tom Cruise look-alike has starred in Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly blended his extracurricular and academic pursuits in his award-winning creative thesis. His thesis, which was a screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school, garnered the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize. After graduation, he is off to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry—a plan...
...Edward R. Pressman, producer of “Wall Street,” and he notes an “Indecent Exposure” film is “in development” on his website.“Indecent Exposure” was nominated for the National Book Award. It did not win, but McClintick’s trophy case still glitters.His liner notes for Frank Sinatra’s “Trilogy: Past Present Future” won a 1981 Grammy Award for best album text.“If you’re a writer, you?...
...grievances was growing. Several Corporation fellows fretted over Summers’ inability to manage his seemingly never-ending row with the Faculty, the source says. Even after the no-confidence vote, tensions flared hotter last spring amid rumors that Summers had considered granting non-FAS schools the power to award PhD diplomas. At a full Faculty meeting in April of 2005, Summers denied the rumors. But the then-dean of the FAS graduate school, Peter T. Ellison, would later tell a Corporation member that Summers’ denial...
...reached. There are a host of other problems that show the University is still bound by the not-so-glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it?...
...mother of two says. “At the same time, having a career makes me a better mother and having had children made me in many ways a better writer and teacher.”When Elkins’ oldest son was informed of the $10,000 Pulitzer award, the six-year-old replied, “Wow, that’s pretty cool—can we go buy some toys?” At home, Elkins says, “I’m just mom.”—Staff writer Lulu Zhou...