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...believe that having this report in hand affords an opportune and appropriate time for me to pass the baton to the next director of the Office for Human Research Protections,” Koski wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson...
...Reported by Melissa August, Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/ Washington
...Thompson Room in the Barker Center is filled with a diverse crowd of Harvard students, professors and Cambridge residents, black and white, old and young. They have gathered to hear the words of Elvis Mitchell, the first African-American film critic for the New York Times. Mitchell, who is widely read and revered for his tough but honest reviews, spoke at Harvard on the state of African Americans in cinema as a part of the Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series...
Mitchell cut a distinguished figure last Wednesday and Thursday perched behind the Thompson Room’s podium. One would think that a man with almost waist-length dreadlocks might feel out of place next to an imposing marble fireplace with its giant bust of John Harvard, but Mitchell owned the room. Drawing the audience in with his incredible public speaking skills, funny jokes and anecdotes about the motion picture industry, the critic even prompted one audience member to tell him, “Not only are you a beautiful speaker, but a beautiful man and a proud representative...
...Hilary Knight, she is promptly booked. At tea, a waiter brings complimentary glasses of champagne. Knight, a natty, exceedingly polite gentleman in a black silk shirt, still adheres to a rigorous work schedule in his Manhattan home studio. He recalls being summoned to Rome in 1963 to work with Thompson on Bawth: "Unlike the other books, which took a year each, this went on for four years." When Bawth was given its rebirth, no one was more excited than Knight. "Inasmuch as it took, really, 40 years to get this going," he says, "it's wonderful to have it finally...