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Beginning next fall, the gift from the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation will front the cost for 20 students to attend the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the Graduate School of Education (GSE), or the School of Public Health (SPH). These students will pursue social entrepreneurship—an emerging field that combines profitable business with charitable social work...
...next 80 pages, the book becomes an enjoyable chronicle of Cook’s voyage, sailing past Antarctica to Tasmania, New Zealand, and several exotic Pacific islands. Encounters with the natives usually involved gift exchanges, celebrations, and, of course, sex. In many cases, the island women would have sex for trinkets and clothes; when the ships reached the frigid Alaskan waters, some men had trouble staying warm in their few remaining clothes. Cook’s men infected the natives with devastating venereal diseases, which were transmitted back in a vicious cycle. Ledyard was infected. In Hawaii, the natives...
...globetrotting advertising executive now raising a family in Provence, France; she was only 11 when Sands died - who has dared to revive those dark days. Louise Dean's This Human Season (Scribner; 374 pages) is a novel constructed around the events leading up to the hunger strikes. "The one gift I bring to my books is my ignorance," she says, enthusiastically blowing cigarette smoke toward the ceiling of a London hotel lounge. While researching a follow-up to her award-winning first novel, Becoming Strangers (published last year), in which two main characters dealt with terminal disease, Dean was plowing...
...your shots slicing into the rough? Don't worry--even Tiger Woods, who missed his first cut in seven years last week, can always use help with his game. A TIME guide for the fairways, with early gift ideas for Father's Day, plus tips for women from one who has found her swing. --By Sean Gregory
...next 80 pages, the book becomes an enjoyable chronicle of Cook’s voyage, sailing past Antarctica to Tasmania, New Zealand, and several exotic Pacific islands. Encounters with the natives usually involved gift exchanges, celebrations, and, of course, sex. In many cases, the island women would have sex for trinkets and clothes; when the ships reached the frigid Alaskan waters, some men had trouble staying warm in their few remaining clothes. Cook’s men infected the natives with devastating venereal diseases, which were transmitted back in a vicious cycle. Ledyard was infected. In Hawaii, the natives...