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...family had been worried about Allen ever since she lost her husband to pancreatic cancer in 1989. "For some reason," says her brother Byron Dugger, 49, "she couldn't get over it." At times she would call her brother to say that things had been inexplicably moved around in her house and that helicopters were spying on her. When Allen's mother and two of her sisters tried on Labor Day to check in on her, she refused to let them in. When a longtime friend and neighbor tried to intervene to help them, she threatened to blow his head...
...some places the authoritarian or nationalist governments that replaced the communists were just as unenthusiastic as their predecessors about Soros' continued push for open debate. Says his friend Byron Wien, head U.S. strategist at Morgan Stanley: "He was definitely not viewed as the Albert Schweitzer of our time, but as someone with an angle. He was not prepared for the hostility...
Leonard is also part of the Texas golf tradition handed down from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan to Jimmy Demaret to Lee Trevino to Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Growing up in Dallas, Justin was so golf-mad that he wrote school papers on Nicklaus, Player and Palmer and practiced his short game inside the house. He recalled one hole as "up the stairs, around the dining room table and over the dog." The enormity of his desire was somewhat mitigated by his small stature, but Leonard delighted in beating opponents who far outdrove him. Because Leonard rarely loses his composure...
...also elected William F. Abely '99 to Fellows Chair, Abigail L. Hing '99 to Conferences Chair, Eugenie Lang '00 to Community Action Chair, Byron J. McLain '00 to Internships Chair, William P. Moynahan '99, who is also a Crimson editor, to Projects Chair and Masoumeh Tadjedin '99 to Communications Chair...
...American premiere of the Russian classic, "The Pirate" (Le Corsaire). This brilliant and colorful production was aided by a $100,000 grant from The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, which is dedicated to maintaining public awareness of Nureyev's artistic legacy. The tale of Le Corsaire is based on an 1814 Byron poem and was revived in 1868 by the great ballet choreographer and master Marius Petipa. The current Boston Ballet production is based on choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev and was staged by Anna-Marie Holmes (the soon-to-be Artistic Director of Boston Ballet) and Natalia Dudinskaya and Vadim Desnitsky...