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Last week the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees recommended strategies to de-emphasize the school's Greek system--illustrated in all its splendor by the movie Animal House. We welcome the changes that will provide students with residential and social opportunities outside the fraternities and sororities that currently dominate the campus...
...founder of a think tank called the Rocky Mountain Institute, Lovins, 52, makes his home amid the alpine splendor of Snowmass, Colorado, but his influence can be seen in Detroit, Tokyo, Stuttgart--wherever cars are made. In 1991, before the industry got serious about greener cars, Lovins used a speech before the U.S. National Research Council to call for a transportation revolution. Though the title--"Advanced Light Vehicle Concepts"--could have used more pizazz, the response was immediate. More than two dozen car companies have enlisted his expertise from time to time...
Amidst the subdued splendor of Loeb House's high ceilings and oriental rugs, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced yesterday that Drew Gilpin Faust of the University of Pennsylvania will serve as the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...area's cuisine. He researched the impeccable way food was served on the trains of the past and, he says, "incorporated some of that." The 15 vintage cars, built during the streamliner decade that began in 1948, have been restored (at a cost of $15 million) and recall the splendor of Europe's Orient Express. Sleeping cars are outfitted in mahogany and brass, and a pianist plays in the club car during the cocktail hour. All that's missing is Cary Grant www.americanorientexpress.com 888-759-3944). --By Emily Mitchell...
...Fonda also talked about how she lost a part in Elia Kazan's movie "Splendor in the Grass," a role that instead went to Natalie Wood...