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...presided over a vast social and cultural network. She was always gracious and dressed impeccably, as befitted a First Lady. She often said that she took the time to dress well because that was what was expected of her. She wrote and spoke about the joy of giving - not acquiring - and enjoyed every minute of giving money away. She visited every institution her foundation funded. In particular, I still remember a very touching scene when she visited one of the branch libraries and sat, entranced, next to a grandmother who was reading to her grandchild. When her foundation eventually exhausted...
...conversation, except with close relatives and friends, but he can hear Murakami perfectly. "I don't know how to explain it," he says. "Maybe it's the vibrations, maybe it's something else." It almost seems too perfectly poetic, like something out of, well, a Murakami story, but the joy that rises in Matsumura's face can't be faked. "I can hear his voice," he says. "I always find it wondrous...
...mail sent by Gross, the Kirshners were quoted as saying that while they "loved living in Quincy House and working with Harvard's lively undergraduates," that their sabbatical had "reminded us of the simple pleasures of private life and the joy that comes from concentrating on our scientific and creative careers...
...loved living in Quincy House and working with Harvard’s lively undergraduates,” Kirshner said, according to the e-mail. “But a year’s sabbatical at UC Santa Barbara reminded us of the simple pleasures of private life and the joy that comes from concentrating on our scientific and creative careers. In consultation with incoming FAS Dean Michael Smith, we decided that this was the best path...
Sofia was the scene of great joy and much relief Tuesday, after six Bulgarian medics detained in Libya for the past eight years on murder charges touched down to freedom following a French-brokered agreement for their release. But while attention was largely focused on the arrival of the medical workers and their reunion with families, eyes also turned towards Paris, where French president Nicolas Sarkozy was being credited with the biggest diplomatic coup yet in his already highly accomplished two months in office. Only Sarkozy, it seemed, sought to downplay his own role in the breakthrough to focus...