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...aside from being born in Ireland and holding an Irish passport, I’ve spent the majority of my life in America. So why be deceptive about my background? Europeans seem to hold a lot of stereotypes about Americans; saying I’m from Dublin rather than Pittsburgh is like saying I’m from Boston rather than Harvard. The difference, of course, is that by saying you’re from Harvard people might resent you because they think you’re a workaholic, a social outcast or an elitist; saying you?...
...Keelboat Lewis designed the craft and oversaw its often delayed construction in Pittsburgh. This largest craft of the expedition never made it past what is now North Dakota. In spring of 1805, it returned to St. Louis, carrying men, specimens and reports...
...Pirogue Lewis bought it, possibly in Pittsburgh, to lighten the keelboat's load on the shallow Ohio River. The 41-ft. craft was hidden with supplies at the Marias River in what is now Montana. Returning 13 months later, the men found the boat had rotted away...
...kind of photographer who could mount an entire show of nothing but pictures of famous people putting their hands up to block his lens. There are quite a few shots like that in the retrospective of Galella's work that opens this week at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa. There are even more of them in The Photographs of Ron Galella (Greybull Press; 258 pages; $75), a career-length compilation published earlier this year. Since his first days as an Air Force photographer getting shots of the stars who visited his base, Galella, now 71, has been chasing...
...other returning Harvard players were drafted in the final rounds. Sophomore defenseman Ryan Lannon was taken in the eighth round by the Pittsburgh Penguins, seven picks after Hafner, and sophomore winger Rob Flynn was selected by the New York Rangers with the first pick of the ninth round...