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George Bush is a careful custodian of his image. It's fine to snap a photo of him without a tie as he works on his ranch, but photographers have been prevented from snapping him with his tie loosened. So the premiere next month at an Austin film festival of a feature-length movie that depicts Governor Bush merrymaking with journalists aboard his presidential campaign plane in the fall of 2000 may not get a thumbs-up from the Commander in Chief. "These are my people," says Bush, who is seen wading into the boozy throng's cocktail hour...
Penang's snake temple has a problem. The deadly pit vipers that have made this Chinese Taoist temple their refuge since the 1850s have, according to a tourist brochure, "mysteriously" disappeared. "One day they just stopped coming," says the temple's custodian. We are standing at the back of the shrine where the view, which once stretched over the vipers' nesting grounds to the mountains beyond, is now blocked by a semiconductor plant. "Yes, it's a mystery," he says, with a wink and a nod toward the factory...
George Bush is a careful custodian of his image. It's fine to snap a photo of him without a tie as he works on his ranch, but photographers have been prevented from snapping him with his tie loosened. So the premiere next month at an Austin film festival of a feature-length movie that depicts Governor Bush merrymaking with journalists aboard his presidential campaign plane in the fall of 2000 may not get a thumbs-up from the Commander in Chief. "These are my people," says Bush, who is seen wading into the boozy throng's cocktail hour...
...into Mass. Hall and are confronted by grim, heartless officials. The omnipresent camera tracks down then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 and captures him brusquely dismissing the protestors: “I have office hours every two weeks.” It sympathetically watches Frank, a custodian, perform his work as he tells the audience, “I call this place the reservation. We’re allowed to think we’re mad, but we’re not allowed to say it.” On the other hand, the Harvard Corporation...
Griffin began working for PBH as a custodian about 10 years ago, left briefly and then was asked to come back seven years ago after the public service overhaul at the College—when a more rigorous driver-training program was implemented. “I was supposed to work four hours a week giving the kids a driving test,” he says. “But they need to know so much more than you can teach them in a five-minute intro before the test.” The Harvard insurance office, which sees that...