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...DIED. Lee Gordon, 84, the first U.S. prisoner of war to escape a German camp during World War II; in Menlo Park, Calif. In October 1943, after two failed attempts to flee Stalag VIIA, he used a fake ID tag to enter an outdoor work area, sneaked past a distracted guard and walked away. He reunited with Allies through a French Resistance group, arriving a free man in England a year later. In the 2000 TV documentary Escape from a Living Hell, he recalled stumbling, free, into a French caf�: "The waitress walked up to me. I looked...
Moore will be joined on The Crimson’s masthead by the managing editor-elect, Javier C. Hernandez ’08, and the business manager-elect, Roger R. Lee...
...author. “Fast Food Nation” imbeds facts about the American fast food industry in specious “real people” vignettes, hoping to make the statistics come alive with a Hollywood budget and a star-studded cast and crew. Cinematographer Lee Daniel has worked extensively with Linklater on past projects like “Before Sunset” and “Dazed and Confused.” The visual aspects of the film maintain finesse while capturing the script-dictated images of commercialization, mass consumerism, and varying amounts of dead cows. However...
...being seen as a minority. You hear people say ‘When I was growing up, I thought to be Asian was ugly. I didn’t want to be Asian. I wished I was white,’” says AAA Co-President Sanby Lee ’08. “I hated being Chinese.” Zhang says. “Now I know it’s part of my heritage, and I don’t have to conform to what’s expected of my ethnicity. I would...
...soap operas in Spanish. But Harvard’s new stake isn’t likely to last for long. On Sept. 27, Univision’s shareholders voted to approve a $12.3 billion acquisition by a group of private investors led by Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners. If approved by the Federal Communications Commission, the acquisition could be finalized by the spring. The president of the Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, left in 2005 after a 15-year stint at the firm’s helm. His replacement as endowment chief was former bond manager...