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...your new room with your new sheets and be proud: you have survived your very first day of college! If you’re lucky, there will be a crazy thunderstorm and you’ll actually go to bed in the Science Center after playing cards with President Drew Faust (this happened to the Class...
...DREW GILPIN FAUST—UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
...peaceful uprisings that were sweeping aside authoritarian regimes across the globe: Solidarity in Poland, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the end of dictatorships in South Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. Even the extinguished idealism of student protesters in Tiananmen or the monks in Burma drew succor from the example of a certain Filipino homemaker's bravery - a woman who herself almost inadvertently assumed the mantle of Mohandas Gandhi after the assassination of her political-dissident husband in 1983. "Cory Aquino's struggle for and success at fortifying constitutional democracy in the Philippines," says Anwar Ibrahim...
DIED Though his renovation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City drew mixed reviews, Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, 71, counted among his fans Hollywood A listers like Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg, for whom he designed lavish homes...
...through Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogging about her experiences. By turns amusing, profane and whiny, Julie & Julia was a best seller. It did not include a blurb from Child, who reportedly found Powell's project disrespectful and unserious. Thankfully, in writing her screenplay, Ephron drew on a second source, Child's memoir My Life in France (published after Child's death in 2004 and written with Alex Prud'homme). The Child who is only imagined in Powell's book as a sort of kitchen goddess-dictator is realized here as a real person, living...