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Rumpled and round, he was intensely cerebral, with a deeply speculative mind that focused on more than just business. He was involved in liberal politics, employing both Vernon Jordan and, for several years, Rahm Emanuel. And he loved the media. The brother of deceased playwright Wendy Wasserstein, he edited his college newspaper as a teenager, interned at Forbes magazine and, over the past decade, assembled and sold American Lawyer Media, founded The Deal and acquired New York magazine...
With that in mind, it's hard to ignore PBHA's heart-warming notices over the house lists, encouraging students to join the Elderly Affairs Committee, which conducts the Elderly 1-2-1 and Vernon Hall Nursing Home programs...
According to Daniel E. Lage '10, co-director of the Vernon Hall volunteer program, PBHA hopes to recruit new volunteers through its publicity efforts; though PBHA has a sprawling membership, about only 20 volunteers work with the elderly, he says...
...most ignoble moments in British foreign policy. MI5 at that point actually understands [Adolf] Hitler far better than the British government and then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in particular. He pays no attention to what they tell him during the negotiations that lead to the Munich agreements. So Vernon Kell [the head of MI5 at the time] decides the only way he can get through to the Prime Minister is to tell him what Hitler is saying about him, specifically that he calls him as an arsehole. He gives him the German word that Hitler is said to use: Arschloch...
...Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, and Sufjan Stevens to name a few—none of them have done it quite as impressively as Bon Iver in “For Emma, Forever Ago,” the 2007 debut album written, performed, and produced by Wisconsinite Justin Vernon. Part of the success of the album was the stark and at-times haunting instrumentation that supported his hymnal voicing. In Vernon’s newest project, an entirely new musical setting from the one established in “For Emma” surrounds these same vocal styles...