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At a Marriott Hotel in New York City this week, the National Book Foundation plans to hand Stephen King its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Previous recipients of the medal include Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller and Toni Morrison, which makes King, an unrepentant horror monger, a...
In the midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and...
Visitors to the penthouse at the Holyoke Center today will no longer find the elegant dining room designed for Harvard’s most lavish events, but instead a number of sun-bathed offices with the best views in Cambridge. The only traces to remind a visitor that this floor...
“He was a figure. He would have been distinguished in any company,” said Menand. “He was like Cary Grant.”
Why shouldn’t the United States have a female leader? Many countries have had female prime ministers and presidents, think Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Mary Robinson and Gro Harlen Bruntland to name a distinguished few. One of the most satisfying aspects of this particular campaign has...