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...motorcycle exhibit. My son owns a motorcycle dealership, and I visit him and his shop frequently, for his machines make me feel good. I am always overwhelmed by their design; they are true works of art. Thank you and the Guggenheim Museum for validating my taste. ELEANOR K. PRAGER Palo Alto, Calif...
Usually when we speak about journalists displaying courage, we mean they have the courage to pursue difficult stories that offend powerful people, or the courage to write a story that cuts against the conventional wisdom. KARSTEN PRAGER, our colleague here at TIME, had that sort of courage in abundance. But throughout his life, which ended when he lost a fight with lymphoma a few weeks ago, he showed a deeper, personal bravery that made him someone very special indeed. As a German boy of eight, he and his mother and siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia...
DIED. KARSTEN PRAGER, 61, worldly wise TIME foreign correspondent who broadly expanded the reach and scope of TIME's international editions; after undergoing treatment for lymphoma; in Richmond, Va. German by birth, Prager was schooled in America and got his journalistic start in Asia. He joined TIME in 1965, and was a correspondent in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Beirut and Madrid, among other locales. Following his return to New York, he eventually became managing editor of TIME International...
Carnesale flew to California to interview for the position last week. Other candidates interviewed include University of Pennsylvania Provost Stanley Chodorow, UCLA Medical School Dean Gerald Levey and UCLA Law School Dean Susan Prager...
Earlier this month, the Bruin published a preliminary list of four candidates obtained from a member of the search committee that included Carnesale and UCLA's Prager, but also listed Stanford University Provost Condoleezza Rice and University of Florida President John Lombardi...