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Last May, Yale's Director of Instructional Computing Services Franklin M. Steen, no relation to Richard, took over as permanent director of HASCS...
...prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were handed out by Columbia University's journalism school in 21 categories. Among the winners: History-No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Fiction-The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields; Poetry-Simple Truth, by Philip Levine; Biography-Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Joan D. Hedrick; Drama-The Young Man from Atlanta, by Horton Foote. The Virgin Islands Daily News (circ. 16,400) won in the Public Service category for a 10-part series on crime...
Goodwin was awarded the prize for her recent book on Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt...
While testimony proceeded in New Hampshire, developments in two other criminal cases kept the recovered-memory issue in the headlines. In California an appeals court overturned, on a technicality, George Franklin's 1990 conviction for a 20-year-old murder. Franklin's daughter Eileen had testified that in 1969, when she was eight years old, she had seen him kill her best friend. She was so stunned, she said, that she repressed the memory for nearly two decades. Although the validity of Eileen's testimony was not at issue in the appeal, it will certainly become the main focus...
Just a day after the fiftieth anniversary of Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945, members of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute joined with Harvard faculty, staff and students in planting an oak tree in the former President's honor in front of University Hall. The ceremony began...