Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chaos leading up to students' departure for spring Break, the news almost went unnoticed. Adams House, which had been presided over by Robert and Jana Kiely for nearly a quarter century, had been appointed new masters. Judith S. and John G. "Sean" Palfery '67, both professors of pediatrics, were awarded the post by Dean Lewis just before the start of vacation...
...trapped straddling East and West. "Working with her," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast Chen as the spoiled royal wife in the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, "I had the feeling she was somehow in exile, not always comfortable. So I love the idea that my own Empress in exile went back to China as a film director...
Excelling at marksmanship, she was discovered on the school rifle range by no less a talent scout than Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, and went into movies, starring in all her roles. For Little Flower (1980), playing a revolutionary's daughter in pre-Maoist China, she won the Hundred Flowers Award. Instead of staying in China, she moved to New York City as an actress-model. "I was clueless when I arrived," she recalls. "The cultural shock--even the toothpaste tasted different! My desire to go to the States was so vague, yet so strong. It's like going...
...owners are a mystery to me. I once went on a long series of nonproductive dates with one, and every time we were about to fool around, she would have to leave to go home and walk her dog. Hey, wait. I think I just figured out something...
...cells to accept insulin. And it appears to be effective in hundreds of thousands of patients whose disease isn't controlled by existing treatments. The question, as always, is whether the potential outweighs the risks. The FDA did require Warner-Lambert to keep looking for side effects once Rezulin went on the market, and the company has tightened its instructions to physicians on patient monitoring three separate times since then...