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...Widener estate is being sold to the highest bidder next month—but students and professors don’t have to worry about finding a new place to study and research. The family??s 7.5-acre former mansion in Newport, R.I.—not Harvard’s flagship library—is being sold at auction by its current owner and is expected to fetch an eight-figure sum that may approach $25 million. Both the beach front villa and Widener Library were completed in 1915 and were designed by architect Horace Trumbauer...
...think it’s exciting, but basically you sit at home, and watch the news, and call loved ones and friends and people you know and make sure everyone is safe,” said Ziad M. El-Zaatari ’09, who left Beirut for his family??s home in Sidon, a port city 40 miles south of the capital, on the first day of fighting. Two weeks later, he was evacuated by the U.S. military...
...free association with Swank’s name “femme fatale with a bizarre English accent and a weird rat-like flower in her hair” is not one of the phrases that I generally come up with. She trills lines like “The family??s in Laguuuuuuna!” as if she is playing Katherine Hepburn in a drag show...
...He’s on the peacenik side.”ALL IN THE FAMILYThough Lamont is a political neophyte, his family name has been a significant presence in government—and at Harvard—for generations.As a student at Harvard, Lamont was quite aware of his family??s extensive influence on the University, he said. But his friends said that he did not seem self-conscious about his last name.Lamont was a fourth generation legacy student whose great-grandfather—Thomas W. Lamont, class of 1892—was a partner at J.P. Morgan...
...securities and white collar crime reporter for The Washington Post, Masters wisely begins her book by giving readers just enough background on Spitzer’s life. We learn of his competitive, brilliant family??“In one often-repeated tale, [Spitzer’s father] Bernard reduced Eliot, then about seven or eight, to tears during a game of Monopoly”—of his academic success, and of his time in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office...