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...academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post in January. He has served as head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard College will award 1,562 degrees today: 1,549 Bachelor of Arts degrees and 13 Bachelor of Science degrees. 794 men and 768 women make up the graduating class. Seventy undergraduates, representing about 4 percent of the class, earned summa cum laude degrees—the highest degree awarded by the College?...
Another honoree is Academy Award winning director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, who will receive a doctorate of arts degree...
Author Joan Didion will be the recipient of an honorary doctor of letters degree. In 2005, she received a National Book Award for her novel The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir she wrote following her husband’s sudden death...
Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis will receive an honorary doctor of music degree. He has won nine Grammy awards and is the only person to receive a Grammy award for classical and jazz performances in the same year. In 1997, he became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, and in 2005 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts...
...wild game and strong, sweet drink. Take the R340 turnoff, follow the signs for Buffalo Hills in Wittedrift, and head to the Nyati JJJ Distillery, tel: (27-44) 535 9739, which is both a distillery and a game reserve. Embark on a safari, then sample the potent and award-winning mampoer (a citrus-fruit liqueur) and witblits (a powerful brandy...