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...campy shtick and poorly written jokes to try to loosen up the crowd, instead of giving a real impression of what it was like to be Bernstein’s child. By the time the three were listing off the projects they had each undertaken to continue their father??s legacy, the audience was ready to hear the next musical selection.After the children’s introduction, the audience got its first taste of award-winning soprano Nicole Cabell, who sang “Kaddish” from Bernstein’s “Kaddish Symphony...
...recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics and a “founding father?? of the Kennedy School of Government, Thomas C. Schelling, received a warm homecoming at the Institute of Politics last night at a forum celebrating his achievements. Schelling, the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, earned the Nobel for his application of game theory to the economics of conflict and cooperation. Schelling addressed a crowd of approximately 400 students, friends, and faculty, touching on topics ranging from some of Schelling’s ground-breaking theories to their applications in the current conflict over...
Bernstein’s daughter Nina says that the return of her father??s music to Harvard is fitting, given that he never quite got over his salad days in the Yard...
...books that populate her novel, moving freely from text to text. Ben’s narrative interweaves with the children’s books that his mother wrote, with the old Yiddish authors who knew his grandfather in Russia, with funeral songs and folk tales and his father??s letters from Vietnam. There are real-life sources propping up Horn’s novel as well: the central art-theft story is ripped from old headlines of The New York Times, when a Chagall painting did in fact disappear during a singles’ cocktail hour...
...said Professor of Medicine Howard H. Hiatt ’46, who was HSPH Dean while Mosteller was at the school.Throughout his life, Mosteller aimed to find practical applications of probability and statistics. Even at a young age, he showed a knack for statistics as he worked on his father??s road construction crew to earn money for college. On rainy days, the crew would play poker—and Mosteller would consistently win.“As I recall, my father made more money from poker than from working on the road crew,” said...