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...half-dozen more are transforming their universities into global institutions -- seeking the best students from around the world and sending them to far-flung places to learn the skills that will secure them places among the global elite. 'We want the brilliant mathematician whose mother is a chambermaid in Romania,' says Summers...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summers Warns of Crisis Without Adjustments in Global Economy | 1/23/2006 | See Source »

...compelling twist on William Shakespeare’s tragic jealous-lover-turned-murderer story “Othello,” “Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief” features a comic cast of all female characters: Desdemona, her recently promoted chambermaid Emilia, and her friend Bianca, a local prostitute...

Author: By Isabel J. Boero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vogel Production Impresses Despite Music | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

...Seward Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson health-care fortune, left an estate of perhaps $500 million. By the terms of his last will, nearly all of it went to his much younger third wife Barbara, a Polish immigrant who was once the family chambermaid. And thereby hangs a legal squabble currently featuring the unkindest courtroom disclosures this side of the Von Blow case. Johnson's six children by previous marriages were virtually all cut from the will. They tar their stepmother as a scheming shrew who came to be the housekeeper and stayed to clean house with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Life-Styles of the Rich and Famous | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Have you guys heard about the time, right after Byron’s exile, that his Swiss hotelier burst in on him, like, in flagrante delicto with a chambermaid, because the hotelier was convinced that Byron was getting it on with his wife?” They have...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: What Would Byron Do? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

Cosi Fan Tutte is as much about the obsessions of men as the fickleness of women: inconstancy, the chambermaid Despina claims, is universal...

Author: By Zhenzhen Lu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell, Dunster Houses Prime for New Spring Opera Season | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

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