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...expressed frustration that there was no dialogue or discussion about alternative recipients for donations. [We] started brainstorming about if we were going to give a gift back to the Harvard community, where would we want it to go?” said Anne G. Beckett ’04, who conceived the idea for the campaign with Rachel S. Bloomekatz ’04, Celeste R. LeCompte ’04 and Amy C. Wagner...
...Beckett and LeCompte said one of their key goals is to increase dialogue about charitable giving at Harvard, but not necessarily to dissuade seniors from making contributions to Harvard...
...TIME on silent stars Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...
...Hendricks watches his teammate thrive in the Majors, he can’t help but wonder how far he can make it—though, as he says, not many had the talent the hard-throwing Beckett, who threw 96 mph as a senior, had as a teenager...
...that’s where the casual observer catches that Texas-bred fire inside the unassuming Hendricks. You see, Hendricks may not throw in the high 90s like Beckett, but every bit of him believes he can be a major league baseball player...