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...others deny that the school's reputation still flourishes, if only as a mystique accumulated through time, like the water particles that make up an imposing cloud. "The very name Harvard has a kind of resonance," says Alumna Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago. Harvard is, after all, the school that educated Cotton Mather and Robert Oppenheimer and whose former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Henry Rosovsky, turned down the presidency of Yale in 1977 because he had important work to do at Harvard. It is the university where a student named Henry Thoreau...
...Georgia, New Jersey and California have flourished, but many others have floundered. Freedomland U.S.A., a theme park in the Bronx, N.Y., devoted to American history and shaped like a map of the U.S., opened in 1960 and closed four years later at a loss of $20 million. Houston's Hanna-Barbera Land, a pizazzy play park for children, closed last September after two years. Half a dozen theme attractions, from Stars Hall of Fame to Circus World, have failed within the shadow of Walt Disney World...
Freshman year, Kashani's roommate Stephen Hanna '86 accused Kashani of harrassing him because of his homosexuality, and later changed rooms. Kashani admitted to a personality conflict with Hanna, but says the situation became "blown out of proportion...
...insertion of a subplot focusing on a Jewish couple who had been held in a Nazi concentration camp during the second world war was just too much to take. The airline stewardess, Ingrid (Hanna Schygulla), is asked by the hijackers to select Jewish-sounding names from the collection of passenger's passports. She refuses, saying, "Don't you know I'm German...I won't do it again!" The director goes on to demonstrate that he is aiming at the lowest common denominator of human intelligence when he shows us a close-up of a Jewish passenger's tatooed forearm...
...Concepts of Interpretation: Pierce and Heiadegger: Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz, Boston University School of Theology...