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...said Kibbe. Alan got behind anyone who needed him.” Symonds had some walk-on parts in the occasional Gilbert and Sullivan show, Kibbe added, “but he was the star in a really impressive way.” Reading a letter addressed to Symonds, Kibbe expressed a widely held sentiment, that despite his many contributions as an adviser, it is Symonds’s friendship that will be missed the most. “Many friends would agree in saying that I count your friendship as one of my life’s greatest honors...
...Sunday TV talk shows or Larry King Live is not,” Lewis wrote in his letter.But the committee didn’t pay much attention. It selected Lawrence H. Summers, a Clinton treasury secretary familiar with the Sunday television circuit.So this fall, Lewis dispatched the exact same letter, hoping that the committee now charged with replacing Summers might be more receptive to advice from professors.He had reason to hope so. With wounds still raw from the battle that ended Summers’ presidency, the famously secretive search committee is now going out of its way to consult...
...Directed by Faith O. Imafidon ’07, and co-produced by Christian I.C. Strong ’09 and Jessie E.A. Washington ’09, “In the Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenn?...
...Most investors and expatriates, however, seem to be taking a more calculating wait-and-see approach with Ortega. Lori Estrada, head of the newly formed Nicaragua Association of Investors and Developers, sent out a letter informing her members: "Mr. Ortega stated that he is fully committed to promoting foreign investment and tourism, realizing that it was the future of the country's economic growth. We believe he is serious." The association is already planning to hold a congratulatory cocktail for Ortega in December...
...Other investors are echoing Cobb's guarded optimism. A group of 18 key investors in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua's most important beach town, have written a letter to Ortega urging the president-elect to hold a special meeting with them as a sign of his commitment to tourism and investment on the coast. The group warned that the tourism sector is "very volatile to political perceptions," and claimed that some investors have already started to withdraw their money from the country...