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...have to go to the stadium.” Wednesday’s formal-dress reception marked not only a new relationship between Harvard’s president and black community, but also one among members of that community. In the dim light of the pub, students in bow ties mingled with professors in suits, while administrators from different schools sipped drinks together. A jazz singer crooned in the background. “There hasn’t been such a gathering in my years,” said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who has worked...
...tattered envelope, where it will probably remain for the next 100 years, until some distant descendant has it appraised on Antiques Roadshow. However history judges this presidency, I'm confident it will be kind to me. "This was my great-great-grandfather's," that descendant will say to some bow-tied document dealer. "He was apparently a man of humor, style and compassion, the Shakespeare...
...CASKET The bow-tied Pavarotti's white maple coffin was lined with the maroon velvet used for the seats in La Scala and other houses. He held a rosary and the trademark white handkerchief he carried to mop his brow...
...emerged from prison only last year, after serving seven months for reporting cases of forced labor to the United Nations, somehow managed to escape. "The junta is trying to create a very intimidating environment," she told TIME shortly before the demonstration. But the 34-year-old refuses to bow down. "People must stand up," she says, "and choose between freedom and oppression...
...While periods of combat were both intense and harrowing, the soldier's downtime could be incredibly mundane. In one photomontage, accompanied by narration, soldiers describe how they passed their time. Besides listening to their iPods and playing video games and Sudoku, they scheduled four-day bow and arrow competitions using tin cans and wooden posts as targets, with the winner receiving a bag of potato chips. Tired of eating their 4,000-calorie ration boxes that contained dried foodstuffs and chocolate, the soldiers express joy when friendly locals provide Afghan bread, onion and chilies...