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Harvard students who are Canadian citizens areeligible to receive the Canadian Rhodes. Theserecipients will be announced in the next fewweeks
...Electric Kettle 1940, by Fred Moffatt for Canadian GE; 1855, popularized by Russell Hobbes...
...visionary whose imagination was fired by grandiose projects--the more seemingly impossible the better. His motto, endlessly repeated, was "We'll build anything for anybody, no matter what the location, type or size." He and his company built pipelines and power plants in the forbidding reaches of the Canadian Rockies, across the Arabian desert and through South American jungles, as well as in daunting places like downtown Boston, where the Central Artery project unfolds today. His portfolio even includes an entire city (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built in 140 countries and on six continents. It has been said, hyperbolically perhaps...
...going up, he began building the 8.2-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. During World War II, Bechtel, in addition to its shipyards, built bases and ran plants that modified bombers and rebuilt jeeps. At the same time Steve built a top-secret 1,600-mile pipeline through the Canadian wilderness to Alaska, under primitive conditions. The pace left him so fatigued that in 1946 he briefly retired. But he would not be on the shelf long...
...they make less money, have to work harder and risk getting creamed by the critics in a rare sector of show biz where critics can still matter. A Short answer: "The theater," he says, "is the ultimate reconfirmation of why you even started out to be an actor." The Canadian-born comic began his career on the Toronto stage, appearing in shows like Godspell (with Gilda Radner) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown before moving to the U.S., where he became a chameleonlike star on SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He's had a respectable movie career...