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...final ceremonial progression through the streets of London raised haunting memories of her first, on a brilliant morning 16 summers ago. That was when a watching world fell in love with the beautiful princess, her new husband by her side, being borne in a carriage toward an enchanted future. Her return journey last Saturday morning carried her, alone, moment by moment, step by cadenced step, inexorably into the past...
...backstage pass to Wyoming's majestic menagerie. The kind of activity on view depends on the time of year. May's awkward newborns turn into playful calves during Wyoming's short-lived summer, gamboling through meadows of white phlox, buttercups and yellow bells. Fall features the fluttering of brilliant gold aspen and robust red cottonwood trees and the distinctive opportunity to hear elk bugling?the characteristic mating call of the bull elk. In winter, large animals move less, making them easier to spot; moose, deer, bison and thousands of elk are frequently sighted. Springtime, meanwhile, carries the tantalizing possibility...
...account of his insight, compelling views, his personality, and that he’ll be an excellent speaker.” “As far as Commencement is concerned, the message is more important than the name and I think he’ll be brilliant,” Moore said. Matthew J. Glazer ’06, former Undergraduate Council President, also commended the choice of Lehrer as speaker. “Mr. Lehrer is an eminent journalist and a prolific writer, and I’m a big fan of his show,” Glazer said...
Everyone can stop the hand-wringing about that empty New York hip-hop throne. Thirteen years after the Wu-Tang Clan released one of pop music’s most bafflingly brilliant records, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” one of the Clan’s most durable members has shown that he hasn’t lost a step...
...Brilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former...