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...cheerleading (with only a trace of irony) for mass suicide and ecological disaster. "I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago," he said a couple of years ago. "Divorced myself from it emotionally. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply, for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable...
Harvard has made progress in strengthening the arts despite a year-long vacancy in the associate provost position, as University President Drew G. Faust created a University-wide arts task force last fall and secured a $30 million gift dedicated to the arts this spring...
...This could have been a standard tale of adventure in an exotic land, interspersed with equally routine ruminations on the inner turmoil of the war reporter. It is Mealer's gift that even when he is covering what is, journalistically, well-worn territory - the fog of war, the addictive and atrophied life of a combat reporter - his writing is not only fresh but empathetic. There can be few more obscure battles than the struggle between the Hema and the Lendu in Bunia. However, with Mealer as a guide, the names of those two warring communities become as familiar and accessible...
Throughout his time in the corporate sector, Forst has also remained involved with Harvard. He served as co-chair of the 20th and 25th reunion gift committees for his class and he has co-chaired since 2005 the University Committee on Student Excellence and Opportunity, which studies possible improvements to financial aid across the University...
...remarks about his vocation, Winston always emphasized the artistic impulse over the tinkerer's gift. "I am not a technician," he said. "I am techno-ignorant." (Here, he must have been kidding to make a point, since he was in charge of the Stan Winston Studio, which constructed these elaborate, often revolutionary mechanisms in addition to devising them.) "But I love creating characters and telling wonderful stories." Another hint to Winston's humanity: his insistence on paying at least as much attention to his family as to his job. He leaves behind his wife Karen, their two children and four...