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...just months into Hoving's tenure, he was 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...
...spectacular play of co-captain Jeremy Lin, Harvard men’s basketball (7-2) traveled to nearby Conte Forum Wednesday night and took advantage of a dominant interior presence to defeat Boston College, 74-67, in a repeat of the Crimson’s stunning upset of the Eagles (6-3) last season...
...final illusion that really proved Wright to be a master magician. He took a $20 bill which had the name of a Pfoho resident written on it, turned it into one dollar bill, then opened a bag which contained an orange, peeled the orange, and revealed the twenty dollar bill with the student’s name on it. Wright received a standing ovation...
...Returned to the Middlesex DA's office in 1989 and took over the Middlesex child-abuse unit in 1991, where she prosecuted hundreds of cases of child abuse...
...late-November afternoon sun bore down on the park in downtown Kampala, and all along the benches, Ugandan office workers took their siestas. There could have been no less likely setting for criminal conspiracies to topple an East African state. Still, the doctor's voice dropped a notch when an office worker in a brown suit settled in close by. The medic shifted a battered fedora over his eyes. "I am the gay doctor," the physician whispered to me, making sure nobody around heard. He talked about the gay and lesbian couples who go to his office to avoid ridicule...