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...Carlton Cuse ’81 wishes he were as cool as the smooth-talking, straight-shooting character Sawyer on the ABC hit TV show “Lost.”Then again, he did help create the character.“He’s as cool as I wish I was,” Cuse jokes.As the co-executive producer of the popular show, Cuse is one of a handful of people who know the well-kept secrets behind the mysterious island on which the show is set. The former Harvard varsity rower has been involved with...
...make sure she could continue studying without any financial issues,” Rouhani says.He also remembers that University President Derek C. Bok sent him a personal letter advising him to contact the president’s office with any problems. AN UNCERTAIN STATUS But University support could not smooth over all of the Iranian students’ worries. “They didn’t know what happened to their country,” Frye says. “Most of them thought this was going to be a new democratic Iran. They didn’t realize...
...bona fides are the big question in the June 13 election, but he refuses to offer a pat answer. He wanders through his response, talking as a writer thinks, trying one pathway, then another--and it requires some patience from the audience, which is used to hearing politicians give smooth, market-tested replies to the tough questions. But the patience is rewarded. Webb has taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson...
...category, like the yogurt, has not always been smooth and palatable. A maverick, yogurt rode with the Mongol horde, flourished in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and has been cultured by generations around the globe. Then pale, viscous and teeming with live bacteria, it arrived from the fringes into the fridges of health nuts. When Yoplait Original appeared on shelves in 1977, "you had to be a committed health-food person to eat it," says General Mills CEO Steve Sanger. Yoplait had to convince Americans that they would love its signature creamy texture, but it also had to keep...
Updike is fond of that second cover. "It made me look smooth and kind of enigmatic," he says with a wry, twinkly smile. "All the things I want to be." And if he were on the cover today, what would the headline be? "STILL ALIVE, AMAZINGLY!" he suggests, getting even wryer and twinklier. "STILL ALIVE...