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Heston had a final great role to play. In 2002 he announced that he was suffering from Alzheimer's-like symptoms and, in a last burst of eloquence, declared, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure." Not even a movie hero can write a happy ending to his own life, but maybe in the enveloping vagueness, Heston had one. With him when he died was Lydia Clarke Heston, his wife of 64 years...
...those elections and the future of Cecil Rhodes’ once-legendary African enclave seemed democratic and prosperous. Unlike its regional neighbour, apartheid South Africa, Zimbabwe had a representative government, a concentrated but rich agro-exporting sector, and a rising mining industry. Perhaps more importantly, Mugabe inherited an equal-access educational system that was the envy of its neighbours, sending talented students to elite universities in Britain and America, where even today Zimbabwe is much better represented than other African states...
...Supreme Court ruled that military recruiters have the right to recruit on college campuses. This time, Harvard finds itself already compliant with the recruiting regulations aimed at enforcing the Solomon Amendment. According to representatives of the Office of Career Services and the Law School, Harvard grants equal access to student information to all potential employers, including the military. “There’s lots of organizations students or other groups might object to, for whatever reason,” said Deborah A. Carroll, assistant director for on-campus recruiting at the Office of Career Services...
Although real life adds many levels of complexity, Rand said that he believed the study was generalizable, assuming that the players begin on an equal standing...
...future, Sturgess’s breakthrough was his role in the film “Across the Universe,” director Julie Taymor’s tribute to the Beatles. He awed audiences with both his acting and singing. For the young star, both talents are equally important. “I have been writing music and playing music and been in bands since I was about fifteen. I’ve never had to separate the two,” he said. “‘Across the Universe’ was a sort of dream...