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...dinner of a conference of HSPH’s Leadership Council, composed of alums, donors, professors, and HSPH affiliates.HSPH communications director Robin Herman said that the award recipients were chosen in a “general process involving a lot of people at the school.”The Julius B. Richmond award is named in honor of a professor emeritus at Harvard and former U.S. Surgeon General who was the first national director of the Head Start program. Previous recipients of the award include Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., for his health advocacy on Capitol Hill...
Rome: This 100-million dollar epic, along with “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Extras” makes HBO’s Sunday night lineup the best of any night on any channel. An elegant and graphic portrayal of Rome during Julius Caesar’s rise toward emperor, “Rome” vacillates between the political and military intrigue of Caesar and Pompey and the day-to-day trials of two ordinary soldiers from the thirteenth legion. There are wonderful performances all around, highlighted by Polly Walker’s portrayal...
...what medium these touches were in. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), whose Lives of Italian artists is a fundamental source on the Sistine, describes how "Michelangelo desired to retouch some parts a secco, painting backgrounds, draperies and skies in ultramarine, and ornaments in gold." But he was prevented by Julius II, who wanted his chapel finished on All Saints Day, Nov. 1, 1512, at which the artist dismantled the scaffolding and reluctantly declared the job done. Thus the aim of this ultima mano, this finishing off, would have been not to make the colors more tonally somber, as the antis suppose...
...when HBO set out to make a drama about Rome in the time of Julius Caesar, Job One was to dirty up the Eternal City. Rome (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T., debuts Aug. 28) eschews the popular white-marble myth. "Part of the brief was to create an image of Rome nobody has seen before," says executive producer Frank Doelger. Historic Rome, he says, was a teeming capital full of color, pornographic graffiti and coed public latrines. It was crowded, relentlessly commercial (a town crier's announcement in one episode ends with an ad for a flour miller) and, above...
...reporter saw one of the air tubes entering the second-floor window of African and African American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s office and another in the window of Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson’s second-floor office. Nothing in those offices appeared damaged, however...