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...Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died the following year, at age 75, in Zurich, within a circle of admirers and close to Bryher, nee Annie Winifred Ellerman, the energetic heiress and novelist (The Fourteenth of October) who had been her lover and benefactor for more than 40 years...
...where the ten-year-old and his sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word for some place else...
Landon T. Clay '50, chairman of the board of the Eaton, Vance Corporation and a benefactor of the department for two decades, gave the donation as part of the ongoing Harvard Campaign effort to raise $60,000,000 for endowed professorships...
Rounding off this year's list--which is about half the size of previous years' rosters--are Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican author and statesman who will give this afternoon's principal Commencement address, and Robert Winthrop '26, a New York financier and benefactor...
...maintained his power in Pakistan through a program of violence and intimidation which he initiated five years ago with his military takeover of his benefactor Prime Minister Zulitgar Ali Bhutto. Many of his political opponents and critics reportedly have been jailed and tortured without trial or charges, while others have simply disappeared. Last year Zia fired 19 Supreme Court and provisional high court judges after they refused to endorse Zia's "constitutional order." This so-called order outlaws all rival political parties and enables the President to amend the Pakistani constitution at will. Yet in light of this record...