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Faculty and staff Wednesday honored Katherine D. Warden, assistant to former Provost Jerry R. Green, at a memorial service held in Memorial Church...
...Warden, 59, died of cancer in August...
Green, Washington Post columnist Judith Mann, Warden's friend Patricia Alger and Warden's daughter Staci spoke during the service, which was conducted by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, and the Rev. Emmanuel Metaxes, of the Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae in Watertown...
...been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical warden Norton (Bob Gunton, an oil slick in shoes) but also turn a tidy profit for him and his best friend, Red Redding (Morgan Freeman...
...long, interest-bearing view, and he's well played by Robbins, an actor who once made an agreeable specialty of nutsiness but is even better at bland scheming. He makes his way in prison society by doing tax work for the screws, ultimately making himself invaluable to the crooked warden and a source of solid ironic humor to the audience. Even so, his character could not survive without Red's example. Red is the guy who can get you anything, from a pack of butts to a movie-star poster. He's all self-containment, never raising his voice...