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...Richard Dean Parsons was born April 4, 1948 in Brooklyn to Lorenzo Locklair Parsons and the former Isabelle Judd; he was one of five children. Parsons was raised in South Ozone Park, Queens, where he watched Fourth of July fireworks provided by the Gotti crime family and once nearly blew up a friend's house trying to make rocket fuel on the stove. His mother still lives in Queens, and he regularly escorts her to lunch...
Emanuel's sea trials have not been entirely smooth. One less than magnanimous gesture that seemed to have Emanuel's fingerprints all over it: former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean--who waged an epic battle with Emanuel over political strategy during the 2006 election cycle--was not invited to the public announcement in early January of his successor, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. "I thought it was appalling," a Dean ally says of the snub...
...mail sent to the Law School community yesterday afternoon, Dean for Administration Francis X. McCrossan requested that “anyone intending to study or conduct business in Hauser not do so until further notice...
Other top universities expect an increase in applicants as well. The number of applications to Yale College is approaching 26,000, up from 22,817 applications last year, Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel told the Yale Daily News last week. Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania expect to report their applicant numbers later this week or early next week, according to deans of admission at both schools. The University of Virginia, who like Harvard eliminated early admission two years ago, received 21,750 applications, up 17 percent from last year, according to Senior Associate Dean of Admission Greg Roberts...
...what about progress? What’s more American than that? Rob Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art, called Wyeth “anti-modern,” and the posthumous consensus is that he gave the “silent majority” that were his fans the illusion of an America that no longer existed. Wyeth did his best-remembered work in the post-WWII 1940s, when America was just testing its strength as a world power. America had growing pains, and Wyeth was prescribing the opiate nostalgia...