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...waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began to read to a couple dozen audience members amidst the stately decor of the Plimpton Room of the Humanities Center. Armantrout, whose newest collection of poems, “Verse,” will be published in February, decided to make a stop at Harvard yesterday after touring much of New England, for readings as well as personal travel. The event was described by Sean...
...loss for Siemens--and bitterly ironic in that Kleinfeld had acted boldly not only in responding to the investigation but also in separating Siemens' culture and strategy from that of Von Pierer's. Kleinfeld appointed the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP to do a complete audit of the company, and another heavyweight, Davis Polk & Wardell, as corporate counsel. He named Daniel Noa, a former German prosecutor, as the company's new chief compliance officer (CCO) and hired Michael Hershman, a former U.S. military intelligence officer and one of the founders of anticorruption watchdog Transparency International, as a compliance consultant...
...rowers off the photographs,” Cuse said. “And then I went to Widener and looked them up in the directory.”By the time Cuse had finished the project, he had secured a major financial backer, convinced actor and writer George H. Plimpton ’48 to narrate it, and had sold it to the network TBS, which soon aired it.“That was my calling card,” he says. “I came out to LA and got hired as the assistant...
...alas, I will have to wait for another day to fashion myself into a legitimate two-pitch pitcher—no Plimpton this week. The elements intervened, causing Harvard’s game against Northeastern to preempt the Wednesday practice I intended to appear at. Haviland did not make the trip, staying behind to prepare for his Saturday start in Game One of the Ivy Championship Series, so he could not provide counsel...
Like his idol, Hodgman, 34, has forged a career as an urbane literary figure and satirist of the urbanely literate. A Yale grad and former book agent, he has had a short story (edited by Plimpton) published in the Paris Review and writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine. But listen to the commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise...