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...celebrated History and Literature’s 100th anniversary. The event featured talks and panel discussions with graduates of the program, including New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71, New Yorker staff writer Nicholas B. Lemann ’76, and former Clinton administration speechwriter Edward Widmer...
DIED. Arthur Widmer, 92, special-effects pioneer who developed "blue screen" technology, enabling two images shot separately to be combined smoothly into one; in Los Angeles. For his work, he was honored last year with an Oscar for lifetime achievement...
...just perception ... every four years we go, Wow! Women are doing really well. But women are always doing well; it's just not being reported," she says. What's different in the pool, she insists, is a new style of coaching adopting techniques from sports beyond swimming; Stephan Widmer (Lenton) and Shannon Rollason (Henry and Mills) exemplify this cross-training approach. Gould also mentions the feminine touch of Ian Thorpe's coach, Tracey Menzies: "The younger coaches are trying new things away from the (conventional) culture." After their performances in the Athens hothouse, the women of Australian swimming - and their...
...hone his memories, Clinton has been sitting for long interviews with Ted Widmer who was a White House speechwriter and is now a history professor in Maryland. The two talk about Clinton's boyhood - his late mother, Virginia Kelley, saved everything - and Clinton then uses the transcript as the basis for his writing which he does on yellow legal pads. Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that...
...Widmer also questions the individual benefit involved in Question 1, saying the measure would mostly benefit the wealthy...