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...nearly half a century, Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 has served valiantly as a U.S. Senator and a leading voice of the Democratic Party. The unexpected news of his cancer diagnosis last week stunned not only those closest to him, but also constituents and colleagues across the country. The reaction has been particularly pointed here at Harvard. As one of the University’s most distinguished sons and actively engaged alumni, Senator Kennedy has touched the lives of numerous undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. His lifetime political achievements merit one of Harvard?...
Director Sydney Pollack had a special relationship with star Robert Redford, whom he directed in seven films including Out of Africa, The Way We Were, and Three Days of the Condor. Redford spoke to TIME about his old friend, who died Monday of cancer...
...problem for medical staff is that malnutrition is a condition that resembles plague, rather than, say, cancer: its victims suffer en masse, not one at a time. By the time a program like the one at St. Kizito begins receiving patients, odds are good that the food shortage is already severe and widespread. But that means treating one child can put his or her siblings at risk. "I have five other children," says Apukei Santina, sitting on a bench on St. Kizito's terrace on this bright, pleasant Monday morning. She has been at the hospital for the full duration...
...done the voice-over for one of them in the summer of 2007. Sometime after Labor Day it became clear to me that I needed him to do a bit of additional taping. By that time it was also clear to me that Sydney was ill with the cancer that carried him off Monday. I was quite prepared to replace the work he had already done, but I felt I owed him an invitation to come in and record the lines I needed. Tentatively I asked. Tentatively, he agreed...
...Knowles, the former Royal Air Force officer who left England to join Harvard’s Chemistry department in 1974, led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for nearly 12 years, died on April 3 after a prolonged struggle with prostate cancer...