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Since Eisenhower left the White House, voters have carved out a Mount Brushmore of Presidents--Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton--with magnificent hair. What we need is a tonsorial memorial to those giants--Ike, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion--of the World War II era, that one brief and very shining moment in history when baldness was tantamount to greatness...
...Early on, Steichen recognized the value of networking. He started his Great Men series in the early 1900s and continued doing portraits of the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for much of his life. It didn't hurt his reputation that his brother-in-law, the well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition...
Price of a diamond-studded bracelet stolen from the Harry Winston store in Paris on Oct. 5 in one of the largest jewelry heists ever, with more than $28.4 million in baubles swiped...
...ahead of third-place Dartmouth.MIT INVITEMIT hosted a low-key invite this weekend, which featured 12 local teams. Tufts’ two teams finished first and second with 42 and 70 points, and MIT rounded out the top three by notching 72 points.Sophomore skipper Alan Brick and sophomore crew Winston Yan sailed for Harvard in A-division, earning fifth place with 45 points. Sophomore skipper Ali Beyer and freshman crew Katherine Savarese placed sixth in B-division with 56 points. Overall, Harvard finished in fifth, 11 points behind fourth-place Boston University and five points ahead of sixth-place Providence...
...paid to long-cherished hopes that Kosovo could be guided toward independence and widely heralded as a new nation. Instead, U.S. backing for Kosovo's independence and Russian backing for Serbian unity is encouraging both sides to dig in their heels. This part of Europe has already, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, produced more than its share of history. In Kosovo, it appears doomed to keep doing...