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When she got to Harvard, she became a social studies concentrator and began spending a great deal of time in The Crimson’s newsroom. Seidman explained that the encouragement of then-Managing Editor Jeff Leonard ’76 and others on the staff made it easy to “spend more time [at The Crimson] than was probably appropriate...
...Menil, of the Schlumberger oil fortune, and her husband Heiner Friedrich, a German art dealer. When oil prices slumped in the early 1980s, the foundation faltered for a while, but it re-emerged in chastened form several years later and, more recently, has got about $30 million from Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes & Noble. The foundation goes in for converted industrial buildings with good bones but no high-design drama. (The Nabisco factory was art-readied by little-known OpenOffice architects.) And while most museums collect a few works by each of a long roster of artists, Dia prefers...
...which made us feel a little proud and enormously humble. After all, these people were the ones doing the great work; we'd only written about them. And since heroes, by definition, are in the business of shaking things up, more than a few of ours challenged us. Leonard Van Baelen, a Belgian who pioneered the fair-trade coffee movement in Congo, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat urged TIME to keep reporting on Africa and monitor access to antiretroviral medications for AIDS sufferers. We will; when the pages of your magazine start talking to you, you tend...
...years of warm words but no action on the euro have left Blair with a big credibility gap. - MARK LEONARD, director of the Foreign Policy Centre...
...Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author Bui, visiting London last week for the U.K. launch. (An unusual media tour: no television appearances or photographs. Avoiding the corrupting power of fame is a Blissett principle.) "We're fans of pulp novels," he adds. "We love Elmore Leonard. Also Dashiell Hammett. And James Ellroy, especially American Tabloid, his 1995 novel about John F. Kennedy. We wanted to write a book like that set in Europe." Over five years they sketched out a plot ("except for the ending, which would have been no fun") and divided the novel...