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...describes the story as “funny, and also sad at the same time. Very real. Not everything is pleasant in their lives.” The play was written by Christopher F. Durang ’71—who won the Harvard Arts Medal this past spring—and is made up of 33 short vignettes. Robinson says of the non-linear scene structure that “it’s like the way we remember life.” Bette and Boo’s marriage ceremony begins the play, but as the plot...
...story brought back memories of my experiences in World War II. I was awarded a Silver Star, but I'm fortunate to have survived for 83 years without having to pay as dearly as Weisskopf has. If he were in uniform, he would have been decorated with the Medal of Honor. Since so many reporters are losing lives or limbs, there should be a special decoration for their bravery. Of course, a medal can't replace the loss of a limb, but it can be a way for the American people to give recognition to reporters who have acted with...
Rosenthal always claimed that if he'd composed it, he would have ruined it, because he would have said, "I can't see your faces." It symbolized the whole country being heroic rather than an individual Medal of Honor winner...
...Rosenthal always claimed that if he'd composed it he would have ruined it - because he would have said I can't see your faces, and "Come on, fellows, clear your hands there." You know how people do. It symbolized the whole country being heroic, rather than an individual Medal of Honor winner...
...appropriate action” to Shleifer in a recent letter.Knowles was the dean of FAS in 2002 when Shleifer was originally elevated to the Jones professorship. That was three years after Shleifer received a prestigious prize awarded to the top American economist under age 40, the John Bates Clark Medal, which his close friend, Lawrence H. Summers, had won six years earlier.While Shleifer was an undergraduate at Harvard, he was hired as a research assistant by Summers, then an MIT assistant professor, according to The Journal of Economic Perspectives. And prior to Shleifer’s appointment as the Jones...