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...final round of elections, which will select four marshals each to represent Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, will conclude Friday...
...Sweetheart, I'm gonna make you a star." Models hear that kind of promise all the time, usually over drinks in a dimly lit room. But in a few rare instances, it actually happens. A select group of photographers and magazine editors has the power to turn a wallflower into a princess. New York photographer Steven Meisel became instrumental in developing Evangelista's chameleon-like ability to reinvent herself constantly as a model. (Jose Fonseca, a partner of the British agency Models1, calls her "the Madonna of the modeling world.") For example, first Meisel shot her with a broad smile...
...select an author? Or a social activist in the Marion Wright Edelman mold? Anyone could bring fresh perspective to this crusty old body. And the presence of professors on the board will ensure that the Corporation's decisions are in the best interests of academia...
...probably inevitable. Four years ago, Senate select committees on Iran-contra granted North limited immunity from prosecution in return for hearing his side of the story. That gave North a large opening: though he was subsequently found guilty of obstructing Congress and mutilating government documents, his attorneys convinced an appeals-court judge that the case should be reviewed "line by line" to ensure that none of the witnesses in his trial had been influenced by the nationally televised hearings. Two weeks ago, North's old boss, former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, stunned prosecutors by admitting that he had indeed...
That's one reason why the stakes are unusually high this week as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence conducts hearings on George Bush's choice of Robert Gates, the Deputy National Security Adviser, to be the next director of the CIA. Whoever holds that job will have to put the sprawling intelligence community on a new path and defend the agency against critics who are calling for it to be downsized or disassembled...