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...Richard W. Weitz ’83, who won a 1983 Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis on different theories as to why the Cold War arose, used the prize money to help fund his continued studies in International Relations. Weitz now works for the Hudson Institute, a public policy research center that focuses on international affairs...
...After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard, Kozol attended Magdalen College at Oxford, but left early for Paris. There, MacLeish introduced the young writer to the more seasoned expatriates Richard Wright and William Styron, among others...
Iceland gets some support for its conspiracy theory from Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School. In March, after he published a favorable report on Iceland's economy, Portes says a senior figure at a major hedge fund phoned him. "He spent half an hour trying to tell me the Icelandic banks were in terrible shape and that the country was a disaster area," he recalls. "Apparently I was risking my reputation by saying anything different." But not everyone responds to Iceland's plight with sympathy. Eileen Zhang, an Iceland expert at ratings agency Standard and Poor...
...Richard Lacayo's on-target homage to the late Robert Rauschenberg mentions the artist's old friendship with John Cage and his romantic relationship with Jasper Johns but not his vital love/hate/play relationships with Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock [May 26]. Leaving out that dynamic part of his life is like leaving the subject's nose off his portrait. Rauschenberg would have loved it. Donald Wigal, NEW YORK CITY...
...Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR...