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...happened to their country,” Frye says. “Most of them thought this was going to be a new democratic Iran. They didn’t realize that the mullahs, the religious people, were going to take over.” In late 1979, when Carter ordered Iranian students to report to U.S. immigration officials to verify their status, approximately half of the Iranian students at Harvard and MIT signed an open letter refusing to comply.Protesting the government’s “selective harassment,” the students wrote in the letter?...
Steven C. Swett ’56 had already moved into his freshman dormitory when he was informed about a surprise third roommate who would be joining them. Little did Swett know he would be bunking with J. Carter Brown ’56, a descendant of the initial donors to Brown University and later the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Although Brown died in June of 2002 of pulmonary failure after an extended battle with multiple myeloma, he left a lasting legacy in the art world by supporting the creation of the Vietnam, Korean...
...author, like his novelist-colleague Stephen L. Carter, is a Yale law professor. He looked a a bit out of place at a noisy BookExpo cocktail party. But his publisher is parading its high-price debut novelist, having feted him at the New York restaurant Oceana earlier this month. His historical thriller features Sigmund Freud on his sole visit to the U.S. in 1909, and a diabolical killer who is attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. "A bold page-turner," says Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, "with a driving plot." A big Pennsylvania bookseller told PW, "there...
...would take nine more long months and Carter's loss of the White House to Ronald Reagan before the no less exhausted Iranians would conclude the negotiations that sent the hostages home. And 26 years after that, the passions of the moment still reverberate. In Bowden's book, you can feel them on every page...
...have cooled by now. "We struggle with that all the time," says Maguire. "Are we picking the scab of something that's already healed? Because we don't know what people are thinking." Radio programmers make it their business to know. "They're still through the floor," says Dale Carter, program director at KFKF in Kansas City, Mo. "There's a technology called the Dial where listeners react to songs, and every time we test the Dixie Chicks ..." Carter makes a noise like a boulder falling from a high cliff. "It's not the music, because we're playing them...