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...other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, an NBC mini-series for next season. In an interview with Playboy magazine, the actress recalls the result of her long ago stint as statuary inspiration: "I've heard it's still up there in a park some place, though I've never seen it since." The scene now shifts back to Boston, where Davis' comments spark a two-week, citywide search for the statue. Finally, Cornelius Vermeule, curator...
...dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...
...other hand, I'd venture that this freedom was confusing to a number of my classmates, and certainly to myself. As satisfying as my three and a half year stint on the Crimson was for example. I cannot help wondering what it might have been like had I spent more time in Winthrop House. This kind of retrospective uncertainty, though, seems unavoidable and healthy I am glad no one told me what to do, and if there are any regrets about the number of hours I spent putting out this rag, they pale in comparison to the satisfaction obtained both...
Because he spent more time here, Dukakis talks of his stint at the K-School as a more significant period in his life. He maintains that "I promised myself I would not think seriously about politics for at least two years" after arriving, but from the day he started work, he picked up valuable insight that has helped him in his re-election campaign...
...Schlesinger was a third--generation Harvard instructor: his father, Kennedy biographer Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. taught history in the yard, as did his grandfather. Arthur Sr. Anuncle, John K. Fairbank, recently retired from the Faculty. It was "a lot more grueling than I ever imagined." Stephen Schlesinger recalls of his stint grading papers...