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...senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution is at its ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere's dental equipment (bet you didn't know that in addition to being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist). For those who love literature, the 73-year-old Folger Shakespeare Library, tel: (1-202) 544 4600; www.folger.edu, has the world's largest collection of the Bard...
...performance. Some people have said, "Why did you make that little movie when you could have been doing something important?" And I said, "Well, at the time it was important." And if I find something dark and historical--like this Doris Kearns Goodwin book [Team of Rivals, about Abraham Lincoln] I'm working on now--I'll do that. It's just how things work out. It's all about timing...
...more than 40 of the couple’s relatives and closest friends. Rabbi Norman Janis, a chaplain at the Harvard Hillel Foundation, presided over the ceremony. Summers and New are both Jewish. The bride and groom were driven to the Fogg in the president’s trademark Lincoln Town Car, its “1636” vanity license plates evoking the founding of Harvard College. Their driver, after parking, also attended the reception. Several people who were inside said the affair was elegant but understated—“a classier-than-usual dinner party...
...CollideOscope,” which features the emotional song “Flying,” about a couple that meets on Sept. 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center. Paradise Rock Club. 7 p.m. Tickets available through Next Ticketing. $20. (JDMC)The Earlies with Brendan Little and Lincoln Conspiracy. The Earlies’ first-ever North American tour makes a stop in Cambridge with Boston natives Lincoln Conspiracy at 9:15 p.m. and fellow Bostonian Brendan Little at 10:15. T.T. The Bear’s Place. 11:15 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $10. (MFK)Thursday, Dec.15thThe Luxury...
Under a $5 million contract negotiated last year by the U.S. command's Information Operations Task Force, the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based p.r. firm, translated upbeat stories written by military information officers and then paid Iraqi newspapers to print them or hired Iraqi journalists to sell them as their own stories. U.S. officers in Baghdad insisted last week they were only trying to get the truth out by buying editorial space, a customary practice in Iraq that prompted Hughes to launch programs there to train journalists to be more independent. Says a Defense Department official: "This certainly undercuts what...