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...BECOME A CHAMPION, DECLARES A plaque in the private gym that John Eleuthere du Pont built to train world-class athletes, "you can't just take it to the top. You have to take it over the top." Last week the sports- and gun-loving Du Pont, an heir to his family's chemical-company fortune, appears to have done just that. Starting on Friday afternoon and stretching into the weekend, the 57-year-old crack marksman held off police, who had sped to his mansion near Philadelphia to arrest Du Pont for the shooting death of Olympic wrestler Dave...
...born director like Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) has managed to reach across time and cultures to deliver these delicate goods undamaged. Maybe some of that whoosh of delight one feels at the end of Sense and Sensibility is for him, and his emergence as a world-class director...
What's free, could improve health care for all Americans, but is not part of congressional debate? Prayer. That's the conclusion of religious leaders, theologians, spiritual leaders and even world-class physicians who gathered at a Boston conference this week to compare notes on the effectiveness of prayer and meditation for treating physical ailments. The consensus: it can lower breathing rates and heart rates, and even prevent the need for surgery. Harvard Medical School professor Herbert Benson, founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Boston's Deaconess Hospital, tells TIME's Christine Gorman that prayer has been particularly noteworthy...
Diaconis, Leverett professor of mathematics, is a world-class sleight of hand artist and a master card player who uses his tricks to teach mathematical concepts, such as probability...
Phillips Brooks House derives innumerable benefits, financial and otherwise, from the University. The administration, in exchange, uses PBH's world-class student-run programs on the front page of many of its fundraising appeals. It also benefits from PBH's quality programs in terms of the town-gown relationship...