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Like Figaro, the titular character in Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville,” Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 is a jack-of-all-trades...
Adjah says that he is enjoying his newfound emeritus status. He looks forward to resuscitating his barber business, which has taken a back seat to his presidential duties...
Walk on the moon, and people want a piece of you. It can get to a guy. For Apollo 11 commander NEIL ARMSTRONG, the fiber that finished him was hair. An Ohio barber sold clippings of Armstrong's hair for $3,000 to a middleman, who got them to a Connecticut collector of curls from Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Marilyn Monroe and others. When news got back to Armstrong, he had his lawyer shoot a letter to the barber demanding the return of his hair or a $3,000 donation to charity. But the barber had already spent the cash...
Erickson inherits a Crimson team that appeared in the NCAA tournament this season for the first time since 2001. While the team will lose co-captain back Liza Barber, co-captain midfielder Falyne Chave, forward Emily Colvin, and midfielder Alisha Moran to graduation, Harvard will return 14 letterwinners for the 2005 season, including junior goalkeeper Katie Shields and sophomore back Laura Odorczyk, who were voted co-captains of next year’s squad...
...Mordecha Podchlebnik, the second Jewish survivor of Chelmno, "thanks God for what remains, and that he can forget." But Lanzmann will not let him forget; he even questions the man's fixed smile. Finally, Podchlebnik surrenders to the director's ghoulishness and quietly sobs. Abraham Bomba was once a barber at Treblinka, charged with cutting the hair of women and children in the gas chambers immediately before their execution. Today he cuts hair in Israel, and in a bizarre "photo op," Lanzmann asks Bomba to display his Holocaust tonsorial technique on the customer who now sits in his barber chair...