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Harvard’s alumni governing body, the Board of Overseers, has elected former Vassar President Frances D. Fergusson and Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72 to serve as president and vice chair of its executive committee, respectively, the University announced yesterday. Fergusson and Lee, who will both begin their one-year terms following Commencement, will succeed computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64 and psychiatrist and novelist Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60. Elected as overseers in 2002, Fergusson and Lee are entering their final year as members of the board...
...Dutch opposition to Spanish rule during the 16th century.From the first measures of the Overture, each section exhibited characteristics that would persist for the rest of the program. The strings, led by principals Alex Y. Shiozaki ’09, Kathryn S. Austin ’09, and Valerie Lee ’07, handled the opening chords with panache and provided a consistent foundation for the remainder of the concert.However, when the woodwinds entered soon after, intonation issues soured the tonal contrast, and were not completely eradicated until an emergency between-movement tuning during the Schumann...
...where the signature is often spelled out in over-the-top details on snakeskin handbags or horse-bit-studded shoes and lavish, Vegas-style embroidery--appear to be allergic to sobriety. Gucci designer Frida Giannini turned to the 1940s and the gunmetal-gray palette of wartime heroines like photographer Lee Miller. For Dior, John Galliano tried on a reverential perspective, paying homage to giant clients like Ava Gardner with beaded satin entrance makers. In both cases, their studied opulence seemed to miss this moment's modernist beat...
Penn has its own answer to the rabid fan base of New Haven’s John J. Lee Amphitheater, and its students will be out in force at the Palestra Friday night to help the Quakers avenge their only loss of the Ivy slate and again hoist the league banner. Yale can play with Penn-at home, with the support of the Dawg Pound. The Bulldogs haven’t won in the Philly hoops chapel since 1997, and Penn will take this one handily...
...recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real” books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn’t half bad, though it does have a sex scene (a disturbing thought). A whole bevy of celebrities, from Jodie Foster to Jamie Lee Curtis, have written children’s books. Not all approve of these celebrity compositions. The MotherReader blog argues for the creation of a new organization called BACA—Bloggers Against Celebrity Authors—pointing out that for every book deal with a celebrity, there?...