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...head of the Education Department and Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Rice leads the eye-popping list of ladies at the top as the first African-American woman to hold that title. But some of the surprising examples of the glass ceiling cracking can be found in faraway places, miles from Washington...
Wearing Depp’s signature wide-eyed, magically faraway look, Barrie brings a much-needed world of fantasy to this family’s life. He does not bring escape from reality, but merely a nuance of it, a lens through which to view the world in one’s own terms. Neither the film nor James skirt around the harsh and depressing facts of life, but the reality they present is tinted with the innocence of fantasy, a fantasy which—in the form of Peter Pan—both takes cues from and strongly influences...
...record right now standing at 8-0 and Murphy’s squad primed for a Herculean match-up of Ivy League undefeateds this week with the University of Pennsylvania, Vittori—who has only missed one game this season, when the Crimson was at Lafayette in faraway Easton, Pa.—waits with eager anticipation for the weekend...
...notoriety is international, but until recently its undergraduates mostly stayed shoreside during the year. With the expansion of Study Abroad programs as mandated by University President Lawrence H. Summers, this is changing, and more Harvard undergrads are choosing to leave for at least a semester of classes in a faraway land. The consequences of this shift on Harvard’s reputation throughout the world will be tough to predict. But it is in all of our interests for Harvard’s new international emissaries to nurture the mystique surrounding Harvard from which I have so often unknowingly benefited...
...decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife of Rhodesia would give way to color-blind harmony. The message was heard even in faraway America, where a young reporter named Andrew Meldrum quit his job, sold his car and bought a plane ticket to be part of this great experiment. It didn't take Meldrum long to fall in love with Zimbabwe. Initially he idolized Mugabe as the hero of the liberation struggle, but that...