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...Away from the game, the shy Duncan is actually known as a bit of a wisecracker amongst his close friends and family, often muttering sarcastic asides under his breath or poking fun at himself on the golf course. Still, more often than not, he lets others do the joking, while he concentrates on the laughing. As his wife Amy says, "Tim's never the center of attention off the court." After winning the second championship of his young career, Duncan is likely to be one on the court for a longtime to come...
Summers then conferred honorary degrees on 11 leaders from the world of business, art and academia. When Provost Steven E. Hyman read a brief biography of honorand Norman C. Francis and took a breath after mentioning that Francis served as chair of Educational Testing Services, hisses arose from the audience...
Summers then conferred honorary degrees on 11 leaders from the world of business, art and academia. When Provost Steven E. Hyman read a brief biography of honorand Norman C. Francis and took a breath after mentioning that Francis served as chair of Educational Testing Services, hisses arose from the audience...
...PRESS Editing Out Criticism Like canaries in a coal mine, newspaper editors help gauge a nation's political health. When two abruptly left their jobs last week - one in Italy, one in Saudi Arabia - people in each country started holding their breath. Ferruccio De Bortoli cited personal reasons when he stepped down from Corriere della Sera, Italy's newspaper of record. But many detected the hand of Silvio Berlusconi. It was no secret the Prime Minister wanted a change at Corriere, which has exhaustively covered the criminal bribery case against him. There's no direct evidence linking Berlusconi...
...visited Iran in 2000, she was impressed with the changes. They were small, but then Satrapi is a student of details. "Probably I will not see Iran the way I want to see it in my lifetime. But so what?" she says, talking so fast she outpaces her own breath. The adult Satrapi, like the child in her book, is a beguiling character. She is adrift in earnestness one moment, and then alight with brutal realism the next. From a hotel room in Austin, Texas, she marvels at the open-mindedness of the Americans who have come to hear...