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...this was no ordinary professional conference. Entirely student-run, it nevertheless attracted top researchers, academics and journalists who work in biomedicine and biotechnology. The audience was comprised mostly of undergraduates from Harvard...
...reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture thriving Uptown. Nevertheless, this same man outraged many in the black intellegentsia when wrote a work entitled Nigger Heaven, a provocatively named, mediocre book that contained depictions many critics found offensive. The consequence of this negative reception was the sealing of Van Vechten's reputation as a ruthless exploiter of Harlem's culture...
...collegiate squash events, Harvard's Shondip Ghosh and Williams' Zafrir Levy will do the honors. This will be a physical contest with lots of bumps and bruises, and the judges will have difficult decisions to make. But the Indian Ghosh and Israeli Levy, who compete for rival schools, will nevertheless call a fair match...
...intelligence source in New York. He also worked with the electronics specialists who roamed the night streets installing bugs and cameras to watch over Soviet officials. And he was very inquisitive about everything going on around him. "I just figured he was nosy," says the former colleague, who nevertheless wrote off his curiosity as genuine interest in the unit's work. During Hanssen's stints at headquarters in Washington, from 1981 to '85 and again from 1987 to his arrest, his increasingly important assignments let him poke unnoticed into virtually every corner of government intelligence, surveying a complete library...
...august age of 92, as one of the great artists of the 20th century. He knew many of them and swam in the same water as they did, but he was not a giant fish like Picasso, Matisse or even his friend from early days in Paris, Joan Miro. Nevertheless he was a good artist, very good at times, though his later work fell far short of his best, most of which was done in the 1930s-50s. And he was, to all intents, the last celebrity of the old School of Paris--not quite a central figure but able...