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...tacky roadhouse penumbra. An old cheese and some scraps of baguette sit on the coffee table, and beyond the table sits his William Morris agent, listening in on a phone extension as Altman assures someone else's agents that he really is quite committed to directing A Death in Ireland, a script by the actor Tom Berenger. He hangs up. "These are all projects that interest me," he says of the various movies he's trying to get made. "They say, 'The ((movie principals)) will think you're not doing it for art, but just for the gig.' " Altman...
These programs range form lecture-visits and student-discussion/meetings with such Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
Born in India into a British army family from Northern Ireland, Ashdown acquired his generic Irishman's nickname at a boarding school in England. When his father failed as a pig farmer in retirement, Ashdown enlisted in the Royal Marines, took officer training and satisfied his thirst for adventure by joining the highly respected Special Boat Service commandos. After a decade of frontline service, he spent two years learning fluent Chinese and soaking up Chinese history -- prompting suspicions that he engaged in intelligence. In 1971 he resigned with the rank of captain, entered the foreign service and was posted...
...like to think that, unlike the Armenians and Azeris in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, the Kurds in the Middle East, the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland and the warring street gangs in American inner cities, we who live in the protective Harvard environment have the luxury of being especially charitable to the views and the individual dignity of members of our shared community who differ with...
Other shareholder resolutions which thecommittee will address this year concerninvestment in Northern Ireland, ties betweenforeign militaries and industry, and regulatingenvironmental impact