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...Walter Cheng, a third-year Hopkins medical student, said the new pass-fail system was a “nice cosmetic change” to a school with a reputation for being overly intense...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, publishing magnate, philanthropist and art connoisseur; in Wynnewood, Pa. After inheriting the Philadelphia Inquirer from his father, he founded two hit magazines, Seventeen in 1944 and TV Guide in 1953. One of the world's wealthiest men (estimated net worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan...
...cafeteria." But it is not always easy for clients to envisage the working parts within Hadid's broad-brush drawings. This was the case with a science center in Wolfsburg, the German city best known for making Volkswagens. The head of the jury that chose Hadid's design, architect Walter Naegeli, says the site for the museum - now being built and due for completion in 18 months - was difficult, basically calling for "a black box plus a car park." He says Hadid's winning solution raises the box on columns, opening the area underneath to the public. "She understood...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, American media magnate, philanthropist, art collector, and confidant to several postwar Republican presidents, who from 1969 to 1974 served as Richard Nixon's Ambassador to Britain; in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Annenberg's flagship publication was the ubiquitous TV Guide, which he founded in 1954 and which hit a circulation peak of nearly 20 million in the mid-1970s...
...Walter Annenberg was a valued, loyal advisor and an extremely generous benefactor,” Tiedemann said. “His gift will provide scholarships for generations of undergraduates. His legacy will be long-standing. He will be sorely missed...