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...first time I met Norman Lewis, the great intrepid traveler of our times was rubbing his hands together. He was already well into his 80s, but he was about to depart for a part of Irian Jaya where the last Western visitors-missionaries-had, he said, been eaten. "I can't wait to go and hear more about that great evangelical feast," he said, mixing, as he often did, drollness with real spirit...
...Despite the difficulties of visiting the most Plutonic of all continents, nearly 15,000 people a year make the schlepp. Antarctica stands at the lofty apex of adventure travel; it is the loudest of holiday boasts. Ninety-seven percent of its visitors depart from the southernmost Argentine port of Ushuaia, where about 20 international tour operators sell cruises on 100-meter ice vessels, each carrying about 100 passengers. Other trips leave from Christchurch, New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania; and South Africa's Cape Town. All offer a beguiling array of experiences from close-up views of mothballed whaling stations to courtesy...
...Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after Messier had quit. The arbitration ruling highlights a fundamental difference between U.S. and European corporate practice: in France and some other European nations, a company board is required to act collectively...
Illingworth joins Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery ’87 and Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Arlene Becella as close colleagues of Lewis who will depart this summer...
...enter Harvard Yard through Dexter Gate, whose inscription enjoins us to ‘Grow in Wisdom.’ But few seem to notice the invocation as we leave. To our world of individualism, it speaks of solidarity and unity of purpose. It says this: ‘Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind,’” Moulton told his class...