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...Harvard Art Museum received a $45-million donation and 31 works by leading modernist and contemporary painters in a gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer—a former curator at the museum and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, the grandson of the famous newspaper publisher—University officials announced today...
...Like Latifah, Fanning has the eerie ability to lure the moviegoer's eye over to the part of the screen where she is, seemingly doing nothing. (There are few film pleasures as rewarding as watching Fanning listen.) There's also her gift of living inside the character without editorializing about it. She knows how close the camera is, how closely viewers are monitoring her moods, so she never pushes an emotion; she's like a doctor with a sixth sense for detecting internal ailments. With no signs of exertion, Fanning wills Lily from fictional stereotype into persuasive movie existence...
...that consistent coolness has a cost. The most successful Presidents have had a gift for projecting warmth during the chilliest times: Teddy Roosevelt, famously coolheaded in a crisis, had his teddy bears; F.D.R. warmed the shivering nation with his fireside chats. When Obama sneered to Hillary that she was "likable enough," when he talks about feelings rather than feeling them, when a voter tells him about a tragedy and he pivots into policy, it can make you wonder where his real passions lie. "You have to have a fire inside," Gergen says, "an ambition for the nation, an internal, fierce...
...this merely a psychological effect that could proceed without God? Nevins insists not. "I think that hope and strength and sense of worth are an extraordinary gift that I view as the spark of the divine within our souls...
...with backlit photos, flat-screen TVs in every room, ceilings painted aubergine, LED lights around the windows and bed that allow you to create mood lighting. To mark the occasion, from now until Dec. 31, the hotel is offering a "Renovation Package," including a head-to-toe Bliss Spa gift set, two glasses of Champagne upon arrival, and a complimentary entrée from the hotel's restaurant, from $449 per night. 541 Lexington Avenue...