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When Kleindienst returned to the U.S. after two and a half years with the 15th Air Force in Italy, he jumped at the opportunity to study at the nation's oldest university through the help of the G.I. bill...
Among universities, Harvard has one of the oldest of diversify. For nearly 125 years, the University has reached out to a wide variety of students, but Rudenstine's efforts on diversity this year are a response to political circumstances as well as part of his struggle to don the heavy mantle of Harvard's leadership on this issue...
DIED. PENG ZHEN, 95, oldest of China's "Eight Immortals" whose longevity was equaled only by his authoritarian influence; in Beijing. Purged from his position as Beijing's mayor during the Cultural Revolution, he returned in 1978 as head of parliament under Deng Xiaoping. Peng later supported hard-line policies like cracking down on protesters in Tiananmen Square...
...oldest fellowships for journalists in the middle of their careers, the Nieman name is well-known, Kovach said...
...with an infectiously cynical ode to self-interest (Use What You Got), sung by hustler-narrator Jojo (the excellent Sam Harris), and keeps topping itself. Lillias White, as an over-the-hill hooker, brings vivacity and soul to Gasman's clever lyrics ("I'm getting too old/ For the oldest profession"), and the driving, up-tempo number Why Don't They Leave Us Alone turns the hookers and pimps into the most inspired chorus line in town. The Life may, in truth, be just another kind of Broadway hustle, but when the con men are as slick as these...