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...with the Swinging '60s well under way, the museum world was feeling a bit cramped and stodgy to Hoving. That was the year he left the Met to serve as parks commissioner for New York City's newly elected mayor, John V. Lindsay, a dashing liberal Republican (there used to be such things) who was bringing a bit of Kennedy-style panache to the place people would soon be calling Fun City, though usually with tongue in cheek. Hoving fit the new mood perfectly. At the time, the city's parks could be rundown and even sinister, especially at night...
...also didn't mind selling off a Van Gogh and a Rousseau to help cover the cost, which got him into a public feud with the press over the notion of museums selling their treasures to buy new ones. The controversy brought on an investigation by the New York state attorney general, who concluded in the end that, if nothing else, no actual wrongdoing was involved in the transactions...
...himself an athlete on Harvard’s basketball team. “He’s willing to run through a brick wall for all of his friends.” Lin noted that recently Ho, who had an interview in New York, rearranged his return flight to make it in time to support the men’s basketball team in the game against Rice University...
When she’s not in transit between New York and Boston or running from Kirkland to class and back, Heba el Habashy ’10 has her hands full with a business project that she hopes will launch her full-time involvement in the fashion industry...
...never considered another career choice, but would I have if I had been forced to? Yes! You gotta eat at a certain point. I was very fortunate in that I started working very early when I moved to New York in January of 1985. My first job then was “The Cosby Show.” I had one word, one line, so pretty much it was a walk-on, but it really opened up a lot of doors...