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...tutors are great to talk to at meals and give solid advice about papers, fellowships, and life in general. Winthrop’s new House Masters—Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Lecturer Stephanie Robinson—have made Winthrop feel more like a home with spirited conversation in the dining hall and at open houses and class teas. While Winthrop does not have as ostentatious a House spirit as Pforzheimer or Mather, Winthrop’s pride is reserved but true—seen in the quiet burdens that residents brush off with empathy...
...Four, along with Percy Sutton - a civil rights activist, lawyer and local power broker, who died Dec. 26 at 89 - and David Dinkins, who served as mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. The group inherited a tradition passed down from trailblazers like Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whom Rangel unseated in 1970, and together shattered scores of racial barriers, attaining offices once dismissed as off-limits and paving the way for the ascension of black leaders around the country. In the process, they turned Harlem - long the epicenter of African-African culture - into a political mecca, its pull...
...Sometimes an actor is naturally just strange enough, whether in looks or something deeper within, to carry off a role that would look like mannered showboating by anyone else. Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. have that talent, and so does Crispin Glover, although he doesn't seem capable of swinging into normalcy. It's too early to tell what Redmayne's (The Good Shepherd, The Other Boleyn Girl) full range is, but he's definitely got the gift of riveting strangeness. You start out thinking his Gordy is the village idiot; then, as this ghostly pale, freckled redhead goes...
...That’s kind of a big thing to ship,” said Katherine J. Calle ’10, who claims that she was the first to discover the broken window and promptly alerted the House master, on Martin Luther King Jr...
...agitated self. It was a brisk Tuesday evening, and the former governor of New York was bundled in the back of a black sedan, speeding toward the Comedy Central studios for a taping of The Colbert Report. The night before, Colbert had basically swallowed then Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. whole, like a boa constrictor eating a hamster. Spitzer, who by his own description has "nothing left to lose," was hoping to avoid the same fate by coming up with a clever line...