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ROBERT EVANS likes to keep romance in the picture, if in unconventional ways. At 75, the bronzed, basso-voiced producer of Chinatown proposed to his seventh bride, socialite and twice-married mother of three LADY VICTORIA WHITE, 42, by presenting her with a black-and-white photograph of her and her first, now deceased, husband. Evans pasted an image of his head on the man's body so that his fiancé "can have us both by her bedside at night," he says. After meeting White last November at a screening for the 30th anniversary of Chinatown, Evans married her last...
When visitors arrive to see Condoleezza Rice on the seventh floor of the State Department, they are seated down the corridor from Rice's office, in a drawing room decorated with patterned carpets, Georgian furniture and a grandfather clock. Above one sofa hangs a framed, four-page document, typewritten and signed with the initials "GM." It is the original copy of the most famous speech ever made by a U.S. Secretary of State: George Marshall's commencement address at Harvard in 1947, the speech that led to the passage of the European Recovery Act, later known as the Marshall Plan...
...determined quota of first-place votes is immediately elected, and the votes are recounted until all nine spots have been filled. The mayor is later chosen by the Council from among its members; Sullivan, for example, was picked for the office in 2001 despite garnering only the seventh-highest amount of first-place votes...
...some ways better positioned to implement the ideas of the middle school movement. Not only do these more intimate schools tend to foster strong teacher-student relationships, but they often put their older students in positions where they can exercise judgment and leadership. At Humboldt Park, for instance, seventh-graders have worked with the third-graders to write letters to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. "The older grades become mentors and tutors to the younger kids, giving them a sense of responsibility that may not happen in middle school," says Milwaukee parent Tina Johnson, who has two kids...
...LANCE ARMSTRONG, 33, U.S. cyclist; a record seventh consecutive Tour de France title; by 4 minutes, 40 seconds over Ivan Basso of Italy; in his last professional competition; in Paris. Of the race that defined his career, Armstrong, who announced his planned retirement in April, said, "Vive le Tour forever...