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That's the pact that 14 English children unknowingly signed in the fall of 1963 when Michael Apted and Gordon McDougall, two researchers for the Granada TV public affairs show World in Action, selected them to appear in a 40-min. documentary called Seven Up!, directed by Paul Almond. The...
Charity-minded Eliot House residents are exposing themselves to public ridicule for a good cause, but unlike date auctions, Eliot’s annual date raffle entails no awkward stage time and no discernible dating. It does, however, entail some pretty sweet boxes. Participants in the date raffle decorate boxes...
Our anniversary issue commemorated the extraordinary lives of fearless leaders, freethinkers, innovators and charismatic cultural icons of the past 60 years. Readers celebrated achievements by heroes who have had a lasting impact on the world and reminded us of those we had forgotten With the exception of Mother Teresa, your...
Why did you start your charity, the Yéle Haiti Foundation? Yéle is a word I created, a cry for freedom. I started it when I went back to Haiti with the Fugees in 1997. Smelling the air when I got off that plane, it felt like home. What...
Several publications have diagnosed a growing socioeconomic ill: The desperate plight of lawyers, bankers, management consultants and other members of the "merely rich" who are forced to keep up with the new "superrich"--hedge-fund managers, CEOs, YouTube founders and the like.* The gap between a seven-figure income...