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...chambermaid and run on a platform of Love. Their scheme is to stage an Atlantic City beauty contest and marry off the winner, a Southern honeypot named Diana Devereaux (wowser Jenny Powers), to the bachelor Wintergreen. The candidate, though, has fallen for his secretary, Mary Turner (Jennifer Laura Thompson, fresh from playing Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked). The John-loves-Mary affair wins the hearts of the electorate, and Wintergreen is soon President. But an international scandal explodes when the French Ambassador reveals that the spurned Miss Devereaux is "the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of the illegitimate...
...Loui Itoh ’07. “I am confident that these students not only will learn more about the ethical topics they are investigating, but also will produce work that will help the rest of us better understand the issues,” Dennis F. Thompson, director of the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, said in a statement. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...past for artists who were pariahs then, suitable for veneration now. Thus the hierarchy is upended. Novelists lauded in the '50s are forgotten now (don't expect a Sloan Wilson or James Gould Cozzens revival any time soon), while writers who were published only in cheap paperbacks (Jim Thompson) are heroes. Producer Stanley Kramer was the social conscience of Hollywood; yet his films receive little attention now (and if they do, it's dismissive), while Ed Wood gets a Tim Burton hagiography starring Johnny Depp...
Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok has asked a former administrator to take an informal look at academic administration in University Hall, in preparation for the appointment of the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Carol J. Thompson, who was the Faculty’s associate dean for academic affairs from 1993 to 2000, has stepped out of retirement to conduct low-key talks with senior staff in University Hall, department chairs, and others. “This is an informal, constructive look at what might be helpful for [Faculty] Dean [William C.] Kirby?...
...battled it out with Dartmouth all weekend,” Steele said. “Even though we didn’t beat them, we got the job done. We’ll just have to do better at nationals.” THOMPSON TROPHYThe Crimson’s best squad was at the Thompson Trophy at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. for a top-tier regatta, and the team didn’t disappoint, engineering perhaps the most dominant performance of the spring season en route to an easy first-place finish.Harvard swept both divisions...