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This weekend Jack Lemmon '47 returns to his alma mater; and Harvard has prepared the fatted calf for him. As part of the third annual Arts First festivities, Lemmon will receive the first Harvard Arts Medal, an award meant for "a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts." Lemmon will also be the subject of a tribute at the Harvard Film Archive, which will show four of Lemmon's representative films...
Gray was one of 12 distinguished foreign-bornAmericans to receive a Medal of Liberty Awardfrom President Reagan at ceremonies marking therekindling of the Statue of Liberty's lamp in1986. In 1991, she received the Presidential Medalof Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award,from President Bush. She received the CharlesFrankel Prize from the National Endowment for theHumanities and the Jefferson Medal from theAmerican Philosophical Society...
...three army servicemen involved in a "friendly fire" incident during the Gulf War. Cpl. Douglas Lance Fielder was killed when soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment mistook his unit for a group of Iraqi soldiers. A report to be issued by the General Accounting Office recommends that the medals be revoked because the soldier's commanding officers lied about where the battle took place so that it looked as though Iraqi troops were involved in the engagement. The three soldiers will keep their Bronze Stars, which were given to nearly everyone who saw combat in the war, but will...
Charles Krauthammer in his piece "Hiroshima, Mon Petit" [ESSAY, March 27] argues that we do a disservice to children when we introduce them tothe real world in books like this year's Caldecott Medal winner, Smoky Night, a picture book about the Los Angeles riots. We publishers, however, feel strongly that we would be doing children a disservice by pretending that the world is rosy and cozy. Youngsters of the '90s do not live in a tooth-fairy world. We feel that children are better prepared for life todya when books provide them the opportunity to question, to discuss...
...Medal honors for this Ivy League matchup went to Princeton's Jerry Jong, who blew away the rest of the field with a one-over 73, but it was the Crimson that carried...