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...Civil War historian. Faust spoke immediately after the reading, thanking Morrison for her contributions to literature and for “bearing witness to the past.” This is Morrison’s second visit to Harvard this year, having received the 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal in June. Morrison read at the presidential inaugurations of Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. Faust said that Morrison asked if she could also read during the inauguration festivities. “And I said, ‘Are you kidding...
...public's eyes, skater Dorothy Hamill was "America's sweetheart." In 1976, she was the perky 19-year-old with the famous hairdo - "the wedge" - who won an Olympic gold medal for her dazzling figure skating. Her life seemed to glide as easily as her skates. But as Hamill, now 51 and the mother of a 19-year-old daughter, reveals in her frank new book, A Skating Life: My Story, that behind the scenes, she was in the grip of serious depression, which ran through her family. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hamill, who was in Minneapolis...
...write that your mother wasn't in the arena when you won your Olympic gold medal. Do you attribute that to her emotional problems...
...forget about track and field. Jones and Gatlin have taken the sport down. Maybe we should have lost faith back in '88, when Ben Johnson got stripped of his medal in Seoul. Think about it - Johnson, Jones, Gatlin - three Olympic champs, convicted cheaters. Compared to track and field, baseball's steroid struggles seem bush league...
...makes it extra special to be the one that won the medal to match our goal, but it is even better that we surpassed our goal by three medals,” Kolbe said in a press release for U.S. Paralympics...