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...also the last Faculty meeting for William C. Kirby as dean of the Faculty, a post which he resigned in January under pressure from Summers. Speaking before the president, Kirby garnered a 30-second round of applause after thanking the president, his colleagues, students, and the staff.But the spotlight belonged to Summers, who peppered his speech with notes of reconciliation. “Difficult marriages sometimes end, and so it is with ours,” he began. “Life is too short for anger, and yet, it is too long not to reflect on experience...
Often seen, rarely heard and openly gay in a hive of intense conservatives--Mary Cheney was a cipher to outsiders while working on her father Dick's two national campaigns. Her new memoir, Now It's My Turn, tells how she and partner Heather Poe adapted to a spotlight they had long shied away from. Now a chief of staff at AOL, Cheney, 37, spoke with TIME's Mike Allen about coming out, campaigning for her dad and another generation of Cheneys in politics...
...number from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" that shows the lyricist at his most puckish. Consider these couplets that lead up to the title in five verses: "Ma Nature's lyrical / With her yearly miracle ? Each nest is twittering, / They're all baby-sittering ... Sun's getting' shinery / To spotlight the finery ... Even the catamount / Is nonplussed at that amount ... This home my momma's, I'll / Soon have my own domicile...
Iranian human-rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. A judge who was dismissed from the bench after the 1979 Islamic revolution, she is now a lawyer who works to promote press freedom, spotlight gender inequity and child abuse, and defend dissidents against Iran's theocratic regime. Ebadi, 58, whose memoir Iran Awakening is out this week, spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu about the Nobel's impact, Iran's nuclear ambitions and her daily relaxation ritual...
...America's 10 Best Senators" [April 24]: When it was created, Congress was intended to be the most powerful branch of our government, and in a time when most Americans can't even name 10 Senators, it is refreshing to see TIME putting them back in the spotlight. The media's greatest responsibility is to inform the public when our representatives are performing well, in order to encourage them, and to inform us when they are doing poorly, so they might either change their behavior or be fired through an election. DANNY G. GIBBENS Aurora, Colo...