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...changed Kenna's life for good. In between raising four children and being town hall curator for 34 years, he's met royalty, traveled the world for reunions and ceremonies, led Anzac Day marches, given countless talks, sat for his portrait, and been depicted on postage stamps. When the Duke of Gloucester presented what Kenna calls "the gong," Marjorie was only 20 and not sure she'd cope with all the attention. "But Ted said I should just be myself, and that's what we've done ever since...
...Harvard Summer School’s going rate, at more than $1,000 per a week, makes it more expensive than competing programs at premier institutions like Yale, Brown, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, and Northwestern...
...their curiosity had been pricked by a 1967 photograph of their (present) monarch, King Taufa'ahau Topou IV, riding a tiny wave for the purposes of a magazine shoot. A hulking figure in black trunks, the King is perched on a board given to him by the legendary Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, widely acknowledged as the father of surfing. Burling had a copy of the photo enlarged, and it has pride of place in the resort's dining room...
DIED. PAUL DUKE, 78, veteran political reporter for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News who became a Friday-night fixture on PBS for 20 years as moderator of the sober, erudite journalistic roundtable Washington Week; of leukemia; in Washington...
...consortium, which is called Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), will have labs at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Alabama. Barton Haynes, a professor of immunology at Duke University, will head CHAVI, though three Harvard professors will head three of its five core areas of research...