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...think it’s the right moment to announce a very large commitment. As a result, some gift discussions that have been under way will likely require more time as a result of the leadership transition.” Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman, who has been criss-crossing the country fundraising on behalf of the University, echoes Rapier’s suggestion that leadership transitions are off-putting to donors.“If you’re going to make a very large gift, you actually do want to know who the permanent president is. [Alums...
...bees (cleverly, her dream relates to how she dies in the original myth) to a blurry image of Eurydice dropping a glasses case (the catalyst for her death in the play)—is projected onto a screen as well as onto what look like two huge girders criss-crossing the stage. The latter foreground the images, making them almost another character. Because the stage is mostly open, the play uses light to delineate it—portraying shifts between dreaming and waking, or Earth and Hades, by subtle shifts in the quality of the light. At times...
...mornings we conducted legal research and went out on wild goose hunts criss-crossing the city for random bits of information and crucial documents,” Amy G.S. Chen, a third-year law student with PHRF, wrote in an e-mail. “In the evenings we donned rubber chemical boots and schlepped across ditches, past burning trash cans, through ankle-deep mud to interview workers camping out in a makeshift tent city in City Park...
...Pyongyang last week, said his hosts had assured him that a reduced humanitarian presence will be permitted to remain. The WFP is negotiating to keep some of its operations running, pointing out that a third of women and children in the country still aren't getting enough to eat. Criss-crossing the country to monitor aid projects and meet local officials, international aid workers bring new ideas about the outside world as well as an irksome reminder of North Korea's dependence. Pyongyang seems to be gambling that better harvests and continued food aid from South Korea and China?which...
George Bush has become a hurricane hunter. Like those pilots who fly into the storm, Bush has been criss-crossing the country looking for the best ways to show that he?s offering a competent and compassionate response to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Yesterday, he cancelled a trip to Texas at the last minute, flying straight to Colorado where he could visit the military?s Northern Command and follow the progress of Rita from there. Apparently the word didn?t reach the rest of the staff so a hundred reporters, including this one, went on to Texas anyway. Bush spoke...