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...shape Harvard’s constructive influence on the world.” A prodigious fundraiser, Stone “would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there,” longtime Corporation member Hugh D. Calkins ’45 told The Crimson in 1985. “I don’t want you to give ’til it hurts,” Stone would tell potential donors, according to former University treasurer D. Ronald Daniel. “I want...
...DIED. Hugh Patterson Jr., 91, levelheaded publisher of the now defunct Arkansas Gazette who in 1957 stood against segregation in the face of racist mobs that, in defiance of a 1954 Supreme Court ruling, tried to block black students from matriculating at Little Rock's Central High School; in Little Rock, Ark. The paper suffered circulation and ad- revenue losses exceeding $1 million for its stance on the issue but later won two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the federal-state confrontation...
...week. Over two days at the celebrated film festival, the former Vice President conducted what he figures were 48 interviews, many of them roundtable sessions, to accommodate the kind of interest that entertainment reporters usually bestow on people named Halle and Beyonc. And then there was that encounter with Hugh Jackman, the Australian heartthrob whose expected summer blockbuster, X-Men: The Last Stand, was set to open in some 16,000 theaters around the world. "It was just a random comment, and here's how I remember it--Hugh Jackman saying, 'Well, I look forward to your movie,'" Gore told...
...Toronto, stop by the folk club Hugh's Room for "a special musical tribute ... 'The Dylan Tree,' a night of songs, astute observations, crazy musical portraits, common sense preaching and beautiful melodies from the 20th century man of the mountain...
...Jacob and Fremeaux were also expected to be presenting The Fountain, the third feature from Darren Aronofsky (Pi and Requiem for a Dream), starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The synopsis - "Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world" - makes The Fountain sound wildly ambitious, on the order of D.W. Griffith's three-hour, four-part, epoch-straddling 1916 film Intolerance. One would expect as much from Aronofsky, a young director with an original, powerful vision. But The Fountain dropped...