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...charitainment became a bona fide TV genre. Joining the ABC do-gooder hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Oprah's giveaways and crusades was Three Wishes, in which Christian-rock singer Amy Grant bestows largesse on needy people every week. Time was, the occasional celebrity like Audrey Hepburn would lend her profile to a cause. But Grant and Makeover's Ty Pennington are a distinct kind of charitainment star, celebrities whose good deeds are their chief claim to fame. Their shows aim not just to solve personal problems (help autistic kids, build a school library) but also to salve...
...thought I’d lend some levity, perhaps inanity—something playful—to the five-hour interrogation that had begun to dribble by with all the speed of a snail. But I stumbled as I jumped to the punch...
...Harvard is a diverse community and it takes diverse leadership to get something done around here. It’s easy for other candidates to live within the bubble of Harvard Yard,” Hadfield says. He added that his and Grimeland’s unique backgrounds lend their ticket “a fresh perspective that can shake the UC out of its rut.”Convincing Hadfield, a 23-year-old British entrepreneur, to enroll at Harvard was a slightly easier endeavor than the high-stakes expeditions Grimeland has undertaken in the past. The Norwegian native...
...frequent commentator on European affairs Tony Judt, does just that. The tome weighs in at a doorstopping 878 pages, yet it offers a brilliant and compelling synthesis of the past 60 years - a period we think we know all too well. The history of the modern era doesn't lend itself to simplification, argues Judt, 57, an Englishman who began his career examining the French left. As he surveys the entire Continent, he is careful to claim that he has "no one overarching theme to expound; no single, all-embracing story to tell." Instead, he draws new insights from...
Thus, as vice president, Annie will lend a crucial perspective to the UC: she knows first-hand the intense passion students feel for their extracurricular commitments. She has experienced the struggles that student groups go through to get grants processed and to secure space for their events. She and John will bring to the UC a tireless work ethic and a renewed commitment to the groups and communities in which so many students have invested so much...