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...Maya I. Soyre ‘07 woke up to her first day back at Harvard to find rotten news in her Wigglesworth doordrop. Soyre nearly spit out her poached egg when she read that her alma mater, Winsor Academy, had only been ranked second by the Wall Street Journal. Hoping that her Saint Anne’s alum roommate Isidore R. Hopkinson ’07 wouldn’t learn that her school had topped the list, Soyre hid her copy of the Journal behind her second-place squash trophies. Unfortunately Hopkinson had already heard the news...
...addition to the awards presentation, the celebration also included a performance of Boyz II Men’s “Thank You” by four Harvard undergrads and one alum, a dramatic reading of Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Women Poem” and a dance selection from the Impulse Dance Company...
This was especially relevant to the jury of the WTC memorial, as one of its most prominent members, Maya Lin, famously had her big break when she won the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial competition as a Yale architecture student. Although Walker brings expertise to the table, his role has been to heighten the virtues of Arad’s design that jurors recognized from the outset...
This was especially relevant to the jury of the WTC memorial, as one of its most prominent members, Maya Lin, famously had her big break when she won the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial competition as a Yale architecture student. Although Walker brings expertise to the table, his role has been to heighten the virtues of Arad’s design that jurors recognized from the outset...
FEATURING: Interviews with Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, Franklin D. Raines, Russell Simmons, Quincy Jones, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Alicia Keys, Nia Long, Don Cheadle, John Singleton, Chris Tucker, Bernie Mac, Jesse Jackson