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...Anne-Marie Slaughter has made outstanding contributions to Harvard as a member of our law faculty and as a leader in international studies. She is a person of real intellectual vitality, admired for her scholarship, her teaching, and her university citizenship,” Summers said. “Saddened as I am by the prospect of her leaving, I know she will make the most of this excellent new leadership opportunity, and all of us here wish her the very best...
...this way any longer!"(Washington's plangent contralto makes this line a heartbreaker.) Her exit line: "I know it's asking a lot. But I've got to live my own life. "On the movie's terms, this is only an imitation of life, a sham citizenship, and Peola will pay for it. After Delilah dies, of a broken heart, Peola appears at the funeral and, in one of the cinema's primal weepie tropes, throws herself at the casket. Perhaps we are meant to find Peola guilty of matricide. But in Washington's mien and method...
...born in Lienz in the Austrian Alps but has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1964. No one would describe him as a man who compromises. To protest the coalition government at home that includes the far-right Freedom Party of Jorg Haider, he recently renounced his Austrian citizenship. At 68, he's one of those architects better known for theories and drawings than completed projects. The one-volume compilation of his works is called [Un]Built...
...patriarch of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families and estranged uncle of Osama bin Laden; of undisclosed causes; in Riyadh. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he condemned the "tragic incident...which contradicts the teachings of our religion, Islam." In 1994, the year Osama was stripped of his citizenship, the family disavowed links with...
...strong Sri Lankan Tamil community abroad backs peace. But some?among them generous donors?oppose it, fearing a settlement would threaten their ability to win permission to settle abroad as embattled refugees from a war-torn land. "There are many who arrived in recent years and their applications for citizenship are still pending," says Charles Antonidaz, a British Tamil who has lived in London for 10 years, adding he knows some new arrivals who are "terrified" by the prospect...