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China keeps opening its doors--even the ones in the ivory tower. Beijing's elite Tsinghua University has appointed former Goldman Sachs president John Thornton professor of global leadership, making him the first U.S. businessman to teach at the school since the 1949 revolution. During his 24 years at Goldman, Thornton helped the firm become a force in Europe, Japan and China, where Zhu Rongji, the reformist former Prime Minister and a dean at Tsinghua, was a confidant. Thornton has insisted that he's focused on teaching, but don't expect a globe-trotting rainmaker to spend all his time...
DIED. MARTHA SCOTT, 90, actress who originated the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town onstage and repeated it in the 1940 film, for which she received an Oscar nomination; in Los Angeles. She also played Charlton Heston's mother in two biblical epics, The Ten Commandments...
...Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor and author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption (Pantheon). That's especially true, he adds, now that mixed marriage in the South is being accepted at all social levels--and working-class couples like the one played by Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in the 2001 movie Monster's Ball have become more common. "That's the most potent development," says University of Alabama family-studies professor Nick Stinnett, "because it means a far wider portion of society now has a personal stake in doing away with the racial barriers...
LEVITY. In some alternate universe, I’m sure that Billy Bob Thornton can go two years at a time without being cast as a killer, a psycho or a racist. In our universe, though, he is headlining the find-yourself drama Levity, playing a convicted murderer who has just been released from prison after 22 years. Back in the free world, he finds his way with the help of Holly Hunter as the sister of Thornton’s victim and Morgan Freeman as a local reverend (playing a man of God before warming up to play...
...Crimson’s distance medley relay team of co-captain Alaina Aguanno, junior Virginia Scott, sophomore Amanda Thornton and freshman Kierann Smith also finished in second place...