Word: neils
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...modern times. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, his premier novel, “Things Fall Apart,” has sold over 8 million copies and been translated into 50 languages. He holds more than 30 honorary degrees, including one bearing the signature of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine. He visited Harvard this past Monday for the Harvard Distinguished African Studies Lecture.Fifteen Minutes: How many times have you been to Harvard? Chinua Achebe: Well, I think the number would be five or six times.FM: What do you think of it?Achebe: [Laughs] It is a great institution...
Celebrity Autobiography Joan Lunden's wake-up routine. Neil Sedaka's food diary. The Burt Reynolds--Loni Anderson divorce--from both sides. These and other excerpts from star memoirs are read off-Broadway with deadpan glee by a rotating cast in the funniest docu-theater stunt of the year...
...very, very sad, because we all hoped that she would be able to sustain her strength through Election Day itself," said Hawaii Democratic Representative Neil Abercrombie, a family friend. "She passed away confident that he would succeed ... His strength, his calm demeanor that characterized him in these last weeks and last days - this quiet strength that come across so clearly - that comes from his grandmother; there's no question about that. It's her great legacy...
...doesn’t always work. In the British election of 1992, Neil Kinnock ran a similar campaign and lost narrowly to a post-Thatcher Conservative Party which had been in power for 13 years. John Major, who won, succeeded in distancing himself from Mrs. Thatcher, who by then had become unpopular both inside and outside her party, particularly over the issue of greater ties with Europe. Similarly, John McCain has attempted to move away from the Bush administration...
...Radcliffe Gymnasium, yesterday. Grosz, who is the Radcliffe Institute’s second dean since its creation in 1999, was introduced by her predecessor, University President Drew G. Faust. In her introduction, Faust expressed nostalgia for her own first lecture in which she was introduced by then University President Neil L. Rudenstine. Grosz assumed the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute on an interim basis in July 2007 after Faust was tapped to lead the University as president. In April, Faust announced that Grosz would continue in the position permanently. In her speech yesterday, Faust said that Grosz had been dedicated...