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...daughter of Congressman Thomas E. Petri ’62 and Anne N. Petri ’77, both of whom also attended Harvard Law School. In addition to great genes, Alexandra has always had a sort of “lust for trivia,” says her mother...
...Petri’s aspirations to compete on other TV shows, her mother jokes, “We’re hoping she’ll raise enough money to pay her tuition...
...exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.
...Translation problems, moreover, are not merely confined to stuffy classrooms; a week into my stay I found myself saddled with a large one rather closer to home—that is, with the woman living in the room next to mine. Grandma is the octogenarian mother of the Argentine woman who houses and feeds me during the semester. Her middle toe was sawn off a few weeks ago, and while she recuperates she’s staying with us. In two months of living two meters apart, we have never introduced ourselves. I am only known...
...Fortunately for Fujisan, as the Japanese call the mountain, it's on the route of the best alpine garbageman in the world. His name is Ken Noguchi, and he is an unlikely candidate for such unglamorous work. The son of a wealthy Japanese diplomat and an Egyptian mother, Noguchi grew up as something of a wild child; he says his family was too busy to pay attention to him. His anxious father sent him to boarding school in England when he was 12, but Noguchi was just as lost there. "I was a dropout," he says. "What I sought...