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Halperin will be Harvard's first Surrey Professor of Law. The professorship was established this year in honor of Stanley Surrey, an Law School professor from 1950 to 1961, and then from 1969 until retirement...
Perry and Shalikashvili convinced him that Chirac's proposal was unacceptable, an idea prompted more by the French sense of honor than by a serious assessment of the situation in Bosnia. Shalikashvili checked with French military chiefs and learned that they also believed the idea was poorly thought out. "Shali's ultimate argument," says a senior White House official, "was that you would have to have an air campaign to get the troops into Gorazde anyway, so why not try an air campaign first...
...with a history of success coaching the University of Santa Clara, Sampson was diplomatic about his interim position, but he clearly wanted the job. "I think it's every coach's dream to be the coach of one's country," he told the Los Angeles Times. "It's an honor, a privilege." Even before the tournament in Uruguay began, observers could see the improvement in the American team, thanks in part to added international experience--18 of the 22 team members now play professionally outside the U.S.--and in part to Sampson's aggressive style of play. "Steve's letting...
Columbus sidesteps certain iffy issues raised in the French original--where the man, on hearing of his impending fatherhood, says to his girlfriend, "I have the honor to ask you to have an abortion," and later has a sexual fling on the side--for more general, genial comedy. The movie also gets unwontedly frantic toward the end, with slapstick brawls and auto injuries. (Note to Hollywood: Can you outlaw funny car crashes, starting right now?) But the film has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable, and Grant eventually looks comfortable in the main role...
...Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose as a self-constructed man remains as fiercely impressive as Oscar Wilde's. "Float like...