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...Sheldon Adelson, son of a Boston cabbie, is strolling down the loggia of the Doges Palace, Venice's famous landmark. Across the way he can see the city's other famous sites--the Clock Tower and the Campanile, the Bridge of Sighs and the Ca D'Oro. He stops to marvel at the craftsmanship of a carved quatrefoil atop one arch. A chiseled demon leers down at him. The 65-year-old Adelson mirrors the expression as he waves his arms at the surroundings. "You feel you're standing in the middle of St. Mark's Square...
...awards were presented by four winners of the real Nobel Prize: Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, who wore his medal to the event: Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbachi Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus William Lipscomb and Richard Roberts of New England Biolabs...
Culture yourself by taking a brisk walk over to the Carpenter Center to see the VES Visiting. Faculty Art Exhibition. Works from highlighting video instillation queen Joan Jonas, Susan Meiselas's photographs of carnival stripers and Sheldon Cohen's bewitching animation make this exhibit home of the real flame of creativity at Harvard. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 24 Quincy Street. 495-3251. FREE...
...next best thing to a rock concert, the results were closer in style to a rip-roaring Broadway show, an impression strengthened by the use of Bizet's original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress who played straight to the video cameras, giving...
...program called "The Academic Cooperative," which maintains its own website on the Internet academicoop.isu.edu/Colleges/FacultySpeakers Program.html). The website, which runs on the University of Idaho's server, makes no overt mention of Microsoft, but the education-oriented promotional material for Microsoft makes the connection clear. While some scholars object--Sheldon Krimsky, a professor at Tufts University, who has been looking into corporate influence on scholarly journals, calls it "crass"--Microsoft contends that it is merely trying to be helpful. So far, only a handful of professors have taken the offer...