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Greeted by Mozart, crab cakes, and $30 bottles of champagne, a who’s who of Harvard filled the Faculty Room in University Hall yesterday for the unveiling of the official portrait of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine.Appearing amid the pomp and pageantry were some of Harvard’s most low-profile leaders, including incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok and three members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body.Before the portrait was revealed, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, reading from a single pink Post-It note, delivered...
...strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single to top the British charts powered only by downloads) is emotional tension balanced perfectly with innovation. NEIL YOUNG LIVING WITH WAR From the first fuzzy chords, the question posed by Young's 32nd album is not Why does Neil hate George Bush? but How much does Neil hate George Bush? The answer: Um, a lot. But hate isn't all that interesting, and on the best songs here Young...
...matter how the Dems try to spin it, Mollohan's fall may have come just in time for Republicans. Congress is bracing for the possibility of another round of Abramoff-related news. Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio and his former Chief of Staff Neil Volz both signed waivers last fall extending for six months the statute of limitations on any potential crimes relating to Abramoff; that deadline comes this weekend, and there is much speculation among those who follow the corruption scandal that the first Abramoff-related indictment of a sitting Congressman may be around the corner. And everyone...
Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok, who led the University from 1971 to 1991, filled four of Harvard’s top deanships during his first five years in office. Neil L. Rudenstine—who led the University between Bok’s and Summers’ terms—tapped four deans to lead Harvard’s schools in his first half-decade in Massachusetts Hall...
...adult in one hand, a book to be signed in the other, the children troop into the theater to ask questions of a highly important nature. Their target is the writer Neil Gaiman, whose fantasy book for kids The Wolves in the Walls has just been made into a musical that opened in Glasgow last month and transferred to London's Lyric Theatre for two weeks before going on tour in Scotland next month and England this fall. Gaiman explains to his young fans that the book was inspired by a nightmarish fantasy his daughter Maddy once had. The children...