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After the graduate proseminar, Pinker’s girlfriend, Rebecca Goldstein, a visiting philosophy professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a well-known scholar herself, picks him up for a book party hosted by advice columnist Margo Howard of “Dear Prudence” fame...
...secret court” story, first published in Fifteen Minutes, the Crimson’s weekend magazine. In Wright, the publisher found a battle-hardened veteran of the magazine world with 11 books already under his belt. In the early 1960s, Wright, recently graduated from a famous New Haven, Conn. safety school, worked as an editor at Holiday Magazine, whose list of contributors included Truman Capote. Wright once rewrote a story on time zones under the byline of Ian Fleming after the submission of the 007 creator didn’t stack up to Holiday’s standards.Wright left...
...says institutions like Columbia University in New York City or Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., offer examples of the positive impact that a university can have on its surrounding community...
Sharing a passion for flying gives the two generations a chance to know each other more profoundly. "Grandkids learn to see their grandfather or grandmother not just as someone who reads stories," says Westport, Conn., clinical psychologist Sara Moss Herz, "but as a person with their own activities and interests. It sparks a different way of connecting." Cristina Greig says her grandma Betty Foose's example taught her that girls can do anything they want. Foose treasures letters that Cristina and her sisters have written to her acknowledging her influence in their lives...
...Connecticut-born, Florida-raised Libby attended the elite Phillips Andover Academy. His road to Washington began in New Haven, Conn., where, as a Yale undergraduate, he studied under a political science professor named Paul Wolfowitz. He graduated from Yale in 1972, and went on to get his law degree at Columbia. After Ronald Reagan?s election in 1980, Wolfowitz recruited Libby to work for him at the State Department. Then, during George H.W. Bush's presidency, Libby went to work for Wolfowitz again, this time at the Defense Department, where Dick Cheney was in charge...