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...just as calculating about his career choices. "He was offered a stupendous amount of money to continue to do Roseanne," the sitcom he was on for 11 episodes, says his dad Nick Clooney. "I was thinking he could build a little nest egg and maybe acting would pay off after all. He said, 'No, I'll be in a cul-de-sac. I'll be that guy, and that's all I'll be.'" He pitched sitcom pilots and dramas and eventually won an Oscar nomination for co-writing the original screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck. He makes...
...Book: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” by Ken Kesey
...press release, the Financial Aid Office states that the 10 percent policy will only apply to those families with assets typical for their income levels. Such a clause is understandable, since it is certainly not fair for a family with an income of $120,000 but with a large nest egg to receive financial aid. At the same time, we hope that Harvard will carefully think about what level of assets it defines as typical so as not to punish prudent saving for college. This concern, however, is fairly minor. Given the amount of planning that appears to have gone...
...stings when you stick your hand in a nest of fire ants. This nugget of wisdom—and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident...
...highlight of the night was definitely Elkies’s wonderfully sensitive performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fantasia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra in C minor, “Choral Fantasy.” After staff moved the piano to nest within the orchestra, the audience awaited Elkies’s appearance with almost palpable anticipation...