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...gone-gone. James J. Rorimer, then director of the Met, abruptly died. After a search that led them to consider more than 40 candidates to succeed him, the Met's ordinarily cautious board of trustees took a chance on the irrepressible and spontaneous Hoving, a man who had told the board members at what you might call his job audition that their museum was "moribund," "gray" and "dying." When he got to his new desk, he was 35, the youngest director in the museum's history, and he walked into the building with all flags flying. (Read a TIME...
...more than $50 billion in federal aid, only about $6.2 billion will be repaid in cash; the U.S. Treasury agreed to take stock in lieu of cash for much of the remainder, which gave the government a 60.8% stake in the new GM. Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Geithner told a congressional committee that he did not expect to be fully repaid on TARP loans made to three companies: AIG, Chrysler and GM. (See the worst business deals...
Philip M. Cronin ’53, a Crimson trustee, told Duehay that he would receive support from the trust for funding a plaque and a ceremony commemorating Halberstam and the naming of the new park...
...double jeopardy, combining the pariah status of homosexuals in a deeply conservative culture with the stigma of AIDS, which until recently was perceived as a heterosexual disease in Africa, even by gay men. The "gay doctor," who has worked in AIDS wards, said he was stunned when he was told in 2000 that a gay friend may have contracted AIDS. "Most people think they can't get HIV through anal sex," says Grace, who leads a campus group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth at Makerere University and did not want to give her full name...
...American pastor," Warren said in his statement, "it is not my role to interfere with the politics of other nations, but it is my role to speak out on moral issues." He told the Ugandan pastors that the bill was "unjust, extreme and un-Christian toward homosexuals." The bill's requirement that Ugandans report any meeting with homosexuals to authorities, he said, would hinder the ministry of the church and force homosexuals who are HIV positive underground. He also defended the timing of his denunciation. "Because I didn't rush to make a public statement," he said, "some erroneously concluded...