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...Joseph B. Martin, the dean of Harvard Medical School, says he was heartened by a meeting he had with Summers two weeks ago. During the meeting, which ended with a posh dinner at the Faculty Club, the pair discussed the needs of and the challenges facing the medical school...
...tennis court and driving ranges, a retractable marina and a route that constantly circles the globe for events like the Cannes Film Festival and carnival in Rio. The 110 units range from 1,106 sq. ft. to 3,242 sq. ft., with a choice of four design concepts so posh that they were featured in October's Architectural Digest. The bigger condos sold best...
Picture this: The daughter of some obscure politician is kidnapped one day by her teacher, Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott), at a posh D.C. academy. But Soneji's not really after the little girl-he's involved in an international conspiracy, a.k.a. "the crime of the century." Duh! So he contacts Detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman), because he is not after money-it's fame he wants, and Cross, being a renowned author and psychological profiler, is the perfect person to make sure that the book never closes on Soneji's self-declared evil deeds...
...boyfriend, and she talks incessantly about him, how he lives in Vancouver and how they're just perfect for each other. They've dated for nearly eight months. She pulls out a photo-booth sticker they made in January when he last came to visit. He's from a posh Taiwan family and sometimes Fifi thinks they're not too happy that their college-student son is dating a high-school graduate who likes to wear teetering stilettos and pink lipstick...
Cradled in the posh elegance of Loeb House, the secretive Harvard Corporation officially introduced us March 10 to the University's new "president-elect." Yet the democratic connotations of the term "elect," used by search committee chair and Senior Fellow of the Corporation Robert G. Stone '45, are belied by the intense secrecy surrounding the process and the narrow constituency that catapulted Lawrence H. Summers from his current position at the Brookings Institution to the Harvard throne...