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...course of this odyssey, Hesburgh has collected a record 112 honorary degrees (runner-up: Herbert Hoover, with 89). These days are being filled with further honors as Father Ted says adieu. Last Saturday he gave a televised address via satellite to some 50,000 Notre Dame alumni around the world. He opened on the jocular note that "these recent weeks and months have been like attending one's own funeral," and he summed up with sentimental elegance, "I leave this university . . . in the hands of Notre Dame, Our Lady...
After 68 nominations and nine ballots, the 1,045 convention delegates elected as the ELCA's first national leader Bishop Herbert W. Chilstrom, 55, who heads the Minnesota district of the Lutheran Church in America, one of the merging denominations; his wife Corinne is a pastor in another, the American Lutheran Church. Chilstrom, who underwent cancer surgery in 1985, says that he intends "to spend a lot of time moving around the country to promote a sense of oneness...
Several NAS members faulted Lang, 59, for violating the traditional probity of the academy's proceedings. Says Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon, professor of computer science and psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University (and a Huntington backer): "In my 20 years in the academy, I've never seen a member who felt it necessary to start such a public fracas." Since winning a postponement of Huntington's initial 1986 nomination, Lang has fired off three anti-Huntington mailings to the full membership. "Just imagine," says NAS Member Julian Wolpert, professor of geography at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International...
...Richard Jordan) runs a vulnerable conglomerate; his inamorata (Helen Slater) is the boss's minor squeeze; the older woman who beds Brantley is the boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). And now that we have the farce machinery purring, let's kick it into high gear. Naaah, why bother? Director Herbert Ross and Writers Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A J Carothers know this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret earned nearly $7.8 million its first weekend, so the Fox conglomerate...
Christopher Hogwood, the artistic director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, has attracted a veritable cult following on the basis of his remarkable baroque recordings. Herbert von Karajan, the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, is renowned for his Beethoven and Brahms, though his latest recordings have been disappointing...