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Growing up, Harvard was an almost constant presence in Simmons’ life. Her home in Belmont lies just five miles outside Harvard Square, and she spent her formative years watching her two older sisters blaze their ways through the College. Her father, who graduated in 1961, is an orthopedic surgeon who works at University Health Services on a regular basis. Simmons has memories of standing on the sidelines of football games while her father worked as a trainer. She’s missed one Harvard-Yale game in her life...
...looks right at home. Despite a distinguished lineage—his grandfather, Robert G. Stone Jr. ’47, served on the Harvard Corporation for 27 years and was its Senior Fellow from 1995 through 2002—Fitzgerald has always felt free to blaze his own path...
...though, the Minsk Club is all about the rallies, where aficionados ride out to the countryside to roast pigs and swap stories. It was at a recent gathering that enthusiasts sacrificed a reviled Honda Dream to the god of Minsk. Of course, the Dream thrown into the pig-roast blaze was a miniature paper model used in Vietnamese funeral ceremonies, not a full-size scooter. Then again, with devotion like this, it's hard to put anything past these true believers...
...electricity at certain times of the day. Foreign reporters who visited Shinuiju last month, for the unveiling of a plan to turn it into a free economic zone designed to lure investors, were struck by the contrast with the neighboring Chinese city of Dandong. Dandong at night is a blaze of lights; across the river, Shinuiju is in near-total darkness. Apartment blocks in Pyongyang are lit at night these days, but there are few lights outdoors - except, of course, those illuminating the gigantic statue of the "Great Leader...
...ready for a blaze of publicity for "I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother" (Knopf), a funny and smart first novel by British journalist Allison Pearson. The book, a diary of the travails of working motherhood, is already being compared to the bestselling "Bridget Jones's Diary." When the Pearson book was published in England last year, the Times of London opined, "This is Bridget Jones five years on." Obviously, this is the kind of talk that thrills authors and publishing houses. Pearson admits, "it is not a comparison I would wish...