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...this has been a landmark year for Radcliffe, with the implementation of major changes in the fellowship program’s structure, a dramatic increase in applications, the addition of Barbara Grosz and Katherine Newman as academic deans and the hiring of acclaimed women’s history scholar Nancy Cott to head the Schlesinger Library...
...from the banking world and took up the role of preservationist at the Biltmore Estate in North Caorlina, his familys home. His challenge was to preserve the 250-room Biltmore House and the surrounding lands for future generations. In 1963, the Department of the Interior declared Biltmore a National Landmark...
...City writer. This brave--and economical--lone traveler took his bike, loaded with 60 lbs. of camping gear, by train to Rutland, Vt. Studying his map, he calculated that he could ride the 45 miles to his destination that night. But his map did not show a little local landmark known as Sherburne Pass. After a few miles of steady climbing, he rested and asked a trucker where it leveled off. The answer: After 12 more miles. Ward considered turning back--often. But he pressed on, pushing the bike uphill the last three miles. At the top he felt exhausted...
...What made the show great was the feeling of a team, the feeling of almost a family that we had. There was a great spirit of flexibility and spontaneity that carried the show, that came especially from Cosby. It was a landmark that has not been equalled...
When General Pervez Musharraf made his landmark speech denouncing Islamic extremism last January, there were hopes, even in India, that Musharraf was destined to be Pakistan's Kemal Ataturk - the nationalist general who founded a modern, secular Turkey on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. But now that terror attacks from militants based in Pakistan-controlled territory have brought the South Asian rivals to the brink of war, there's a growing fear that Musharraf may instead turn out to be Pakistan's Yasser Arafat - a domestically weak leader caught between his obligations to the West and to his neighbors...