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...family friend” of Norman K. Mailer ’43 raised questions about the intentions of Harvard’s purchase of an archive from his long-term mistress Carole Mallory, according to the Boston Globe. In Saturday’s Boston Globe, a family friend of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said Harvard’s purchase of Mallory’s archive was a spiteful response to Mailer’s $2.5 million sale to the University of Texas in 2005. “Harvard wanted Norman to give them his papers, but instead...
...Kennedy, 76, is reportedly resting comfortably at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston while doctors run tests to determine the problem. A family friend told TIME on Saturday afternoon that he was awake and joking with family - his old self. Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and dozens of others joined McCain in expressing concern and sending prayers...
...Vanessa Redgrave read from Snow White, portraying the witch and explaining to the class how she came to know the story as a child in her native England, when her mother gave her a book during wartime. Producer Scott Rudin told of of how he came to bring his friend Joan Didion's book The Year of Magical Thinking to Broadway. (The kids know that their "new" friend, Ms. Redgrave, was the star of his play.) Rudin tries to translate the profound emotions from that play into language the children can comprehend, comparing the main character's grief...
...pawn of two magicians in The Prestige) wrote her master's in Catalan Identity. Before marrying businessman Doug (Chris Messina), she has come to Barcelona to spend July and August with a welcoming relative, Judy (Patricia Clarkson), and Judy's husband Mark (Kevin Dunn). Vicky has brought along her friend Cristina (current Woody muse Scarlett Johansson), who is restless emotionally and artistically. She has the impulse to be creative - she starred in and directed a 12min. film - but not, at least so far as she can locate it, the talent...
...unanimous decision to throw their support behind Obama, a longtime supporter of abortion rights, and the move was immediately assailed by Clinton supporters as a betrayal. In the process, they added new fuel to a furious debate that has raged mostly below the surface of this campaign, often dividing friend from friend and sister from sister. Do women have an obligation to support a serious woman candidate? Or is gender now simply an interesting but ultimately irrelevant consideration...