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Sure, with the graduation of Kazmaier Award winner A.J. Mleczko in June, Harvard will lose the most irreplaceable player in the country...
Overall, the new food pyramid for children is a winner. It's clear, engaging and has practical tips on everything from introducing your child to new foods (by making a game of choosing new fruits for the family) to helping 2- and 3-year-olds avoid choking (by cutting hot dogs lengthwise into thin strips). Another smart feature is the food pyramid's emphasis on physical activity. Vigorous play not only helps kids grow strong but also can make them hungry enough to try a wider variety of foods...
...American art institution to be designed by a woman--let alone a woman born in Baghdad--has a construction starting date of December. A garden exhibition center in Weil am Rhein in Germany, her second building for furniture manufacturer Vitra, opened last month. And Hadid was just named the winner of a worldwide competition for a contemporary-art center in Rome, beating out such highly regarded designers as Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas...
DIED. MICHAEL ARIS, 53, husband of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading dissident of Myanmar, formerly Burma; of prostate cancer; in Oxford. Myanmar's military junta refused to allow the dying Aris to visit his wife, whom he had not seen since 1995. Fearful the junta would bar her return, she chose not to leave her country...
...spending record sums on advertising. There was a big wager too. DreamWorks partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG bet WARREN BEATTY that Miramax would print more ads by a certain date than DreamWorks would run to hype rival Saving Private Ryan. The stakes: a $10,000 contribution to the charity of the winner's choice. When the deadline rolled around, Beatty claimed victory. (Miramax's final tally was 118 pages, vs. 165 for DreamWorks.) Katzenberg alleged a miscount. But in Hollywood a suit will often defer to a star, especially when so paltry a sum is concerned. Katzenberg paid up. When Beatty told...