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...siblings of Harvard students at Yale. For them, the rivalry is two-fold, and extends beyond an annual football game. “We actually have a Yale banner hanging up somewhere in the house, and a Harvard pillow somewhere else,” said Fish, whose mother went to Yale and father went to Harvard. Unable to boast about their school’s football prowess, Yale siblings of Harvard students largely tease them for Harvard’s perceived lack of social life, according to several Harvard students. In an e-mail Sunday, Fish wrote that his sister...
...couple's two sons, Rocco, 8, and David, 3 (the latter adopted from Malawi in 2006), will divide their time between New York and London, where Ritchie will continue to reside. Lourdes, 12, whom Madonna conceived with her former personal trainer, will live with her mother in New York City...
...hardly an uncontroversial claim in a culture that prides itself on being a meritocracy. Tales of 21st century self-made men (and women)—of J.K. Rowling writing the first chapter of Harry Potter on the back of a café napkin when she was a single mother on welfare, or of Steve Jobs dropping out of Reed College because he couldn’t pay tuition—are no less popular now than they were during Horatio Alger’s day. In a 2007 article titled “Rags to Riches Billionaires...
...book signing, organized by Random House Publishers, Harvard Book Store, and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, was an opportunity for art enthusiasts to hear more about the architect. Weber said he moved to Paris specifically to study Le Corbusier’s personal letters to his mother and friend. “You get to know the person, not judge them,” Weber said, adding that he was the first to gain access to these papers. Weber noted that many of his missives drew the connection between architecture and sexuality. “For Le Corbusier...
...about his family’s move to a lonely country estate. However, he soon takes a keen interest in the “farm” that he sees from his bedroom window. “Why do the farmers wear pajamas?” Bruno asks his mother, Elsa (Vera Farmiga). The “farm” is actually the concentration camp his father supervises. After finding out about the nearby camp, Elsa forbids Bruno to go exploring behind the house, and Bruno, of course, disobeys her instructions. During his exploration of the camp?...