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...Lulu Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...While in Europe, Brooks was called home by Paramount. Talkies had come in, and the studio needed to loop and reshoot some scenes for sound. She refused. That snapped it. Paramount hired actress Margaret Livingstone to dub her dialogue, and Brooks had sassed herself onto a blacklist. She had often expressed her contempt for Hollywood, and soon the town would return that sour flavor. She was always a handful, making enemies of the showgirls she worked with and, I suspect, having little control over the booze she loved. Augusto Genina, who directed her in Prix de beaut?, wrote...
...events, winning both the 100- and 200-yard freestyle races. In the 200, she was followed by O’Connor, who came in No. 2. Junior Meaghan Colling finished No. 2 in the 100. The freshmen once again had quite a showing, taking home four individual events. Freshman Margaret Wollner led a one-two finish with Chang in the 200-yard butterfly. Freshman Alexandra Clarke won the 100-yard butterfly. The first relay of the night, the 200-yard medley relay, also produced double winners. The Harvard “B” team, composed of freshmen Natalia Festa...
...Senator Ted Kennedy is set to chair the Senate committee that oversees education. Although he has bitterly accused President Bush of underfunding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, Kennedy has said he still believes in its principle: using standards to lift every student's performance. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings told TIME last week that she and the Senator had made the act's reauthorization a joint priority even before the election. "Kennedy and I talked this summer about the need to get this done--win, lose or draw," she said...
...NAMED. Margaret Chan, 59, assistant director-general for communicable diseases at the World Health Organization; as the WHO's next director-general; in Geneva. A former head of Hong Kong's health department, Chan succeeded Lee Jong Wook, who died of a stroke in May. She was praised for her decisive handling of Hong Kong's H5N1 avian-flu outbreak in 1997. But during the 2003 SARS crisis that killed 299 in the territory, she was criticized for her slow response and her failure to investigate earlier outbreaks of the disease across the border on the Chinese mainland. During...