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Many notorious leaders have been kind to you. When I visited Cuba, [Fidel Castro] drove for me. He told me he had driven for only two people in his life--his mother and me. At the height of the cold war, I visited China. When I saw Chairman Mao, I kissed his hand, so he kissed my hand. "I like you," the Chairman said. "You're very beautiful, and childlike...
...Roosevelt wanted to see the colossal project for himself. His trip marked the first time a U.S. President left the country while in office. To see conditions at their worst, he went at the height of the rainy season. While touring, he delighted workers by leaping aboard a 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel and grilling the operator about how it worked. The operator seized the moment to ask for overtime...
...echoes the river's bend; on the west, it seamlessly abuts five late 19th century Hausmannian apartment buildings with a grace that leaves their courtyards intact. And along the southern exposure, where the public will begin entering the complex this week, Nouvel has given the museum just the right height and density to make accomplices rather than minions of the apartment buildings across the narrow Rue de l'Université. But however sensitively it segues into its surroundings, there is nothing conventional about Nouvel's $258 million museum complex. "When you look at it, you may not know what...
...movement is very old and very powerful, run not by gangly kids but by seasoned generals of the right. These organizers have worked campuses for years, and--judging by their record-setting budgets and sponsorship of hundreds of campus publications, student groups and guest lectures--they have reached the height of their tactical powers...
Prior to Summers' tenure, no Harvard president had spoken at an ROTC commissioning ceremony since the program was evicted from campus at the height of the Vietnam War. The Faculty Council later voted in 1994 that Harvard's nondiscrimination policies banned it from funding students' participation in the program...