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They met during Raiders of the Lost Ark, after Marshall had produced several films with Peter Bogdanovich. Kennedy at the time was Steven Spielberg's assistant. They started dating but kept it a secret. "It was the early '80s, and I knew the business," says Marshall, "and I knew if we were going out when Kathy got her first opportunity to produce something, people would say, Oh, Frank's doing that...
...committee will be headed by English professor Stephen J. Greenblatt. Other members include physics professor Melissa Franklin, rhetoric and oratory professor Jorie Graham, history of science professor Peter Galison, visual arts professor Alfred Guzzetti, Radcliffe fellow John Kelly, history of art and architecture professor Joseph Koerner, education professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, visual and environmental studies professor Helen Mirra, art curator Helen Molesworth, African-American music professor Ingrid Monson, Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, landscape architecture professor Hashim Sarkis, dramatic arts lecturer Marcus Stern, and Humanities dean Diana Sorensen...
...Peter F. Grossman, another classmate, remembered O’Neal as a bright, thoughtful student...
...Although China's Communist Party once deemed gambling to be one of the "six evils" (along with illicit drugs, human trafficking, pornography, prostitution and superstition), Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Taoism don't strictly condemn gambling. "Gambling is seen as a morally recognized way of making money," says Peter Ong, chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, which oversees Hong Kong's Even Centre gambling-addiction program. The American Psychiatric Association classifies pathological gambling as an "impulse control disorder," along with kleptomania and pyromania. But throughout Asia, it's considered harmless entertainment. Low-stakes mah-jongg tournaments...
...owners should pat themselves on the back if they're able to recoup a horse's livery fees through prize money. Snagging a champion horse requires lots of luck. "All the things in a [winning] horse - courage, constitution, the will to win - are things you can't see," says Peter Horwitz, president of the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners' Association of New South Wales in Australia...