Word: bernards
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...Bernard Bailyn, Adams University professor and James Duncan Phillips professor of Early American History, emeritus, has been chosen to deliver the 27th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The lectureship is the highest honor for achievement in the humanities given by the United States government, and it carries an honorarium...
William Ferris, chair of the NEH, announced the honor. "Bernard Bailyn is one of America's most eminent historians," Ferris said. "His main work, on the ideas and beliefs that have shaped the American nation from the beginning, is an excellent context for taking stock of our nation's heritage as we stand at the cusp of the new millennium. I am delighted to name him this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities...
...thing, not very popular with current and former White House Clintonites. Two former associate counsels who worked with Tripp in Chief Counsel Bernard Nussbaum's office describe her as a troublesome employee who constantly bickered with other assistants. But Tripp is not remembered as a partisan 'Bushie'; in fact under Bush she was the source of rumors of the Republican president's own marital indiscretions...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Frank Gibney Jr. and Stella Kim/Seoul and Karen Tumulty, Bruce van Voorst and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...TAMARA GEVA, 91, witty Russian ballerina-actress; in New York City. Geva, just shy of 16, married the choreographer George Balanchine, becoming, as her autobiography Split Seconds put it, "the first Galatea to his Pygmalion." She set aside dancing in the '30s to act and later starred in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance...