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Govan has brought in new corporate sponsors and expanded the board to include such trustees as Barbra Streisand; Broad says trustee giving has tripled during Govan's tenure. Museum guards wore Magritte-style bowler hats for that exhibition and donned sunglasses for this summer's retrospective of neon artist Dan Flavin, which co-curator Govan brought to LACMA at the end of a world tour. "The Flavin exhibition was beautifully selected, installed and almost choreographed," observes artist Alexis Smith. "Its level of visual sophistication was doubly interesting because it was done not by a museum curator but by a museum...
...morality and leadership. Blattler, a resident of Brookline, Mass., has a resume that includes a Harvard record and an Ivy League championship in pole vaulting, a place in the pit orchestra playing violin for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” and summer research trips to Namibia for her concentration, earth and planetary sciences. “I do get sleep,” she said. “I manage to balance everything pretty well.” Her roommate, Sarah E. Gross ’08, was less modest about Blattler?...
...China this summer, and I saw blue skies for an entire week. I took a trip to the north of Harbin, a major city several hours from Beijing, and stopped at the Heilong River just south of the Russia-China border. I saw my own reflection in a stream and drank from a spring without contracting diarrhea. I also climbed an observation tower and saw miles and miles of virgin forests...
Barry Bonds is just 65 hits away from 3,000, another majestic milestone he is desperate to reach. He is 38 homers shy of 800, a mind-numbing total. This summer, when asked if he would retire after topping Hank Aaron on the all-time home run list, Bonds was clear...
...Davis both boasts that McCain has the "third largest organization in the state" and says, only barely joking, "One thing I've done well as campaign manager is driving expectations in Iowa to the floorboards." Another senior adviser issues a reminder of the campaign's brush with death - "This summer you wouldn't have predicted we'd even be having this conversation" - before declaring that McCain could come in "third, maybe even second" once the caucuses roll around. The most direct answer is Davis's, and it's based on managing press expectations: McCain can't pull out of Iowa...