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...Both Jeremy Knowles and Bob Clark have served their faculties and the University with extraordinary leadership and distinction,” said University Lawrence H. Summers in a release announcing the appointments. “This seems a fitting way to honor their long and distinguished service as deans, and to recognize not only their outstanding past accomplishments but also their important continuing contributions to the life of the University...
CELEBRATED. BOB HOPE, legendary funnyman of stage and screen; his 100th birthday; in Los Angeles. British-born Hope, who began his career in vaudeville, has acted in more than 50 movies, anchored scores of TV shows and entertained millions of American troops posted overseas. In the U.S., Hope's becoming a centenarian will be commemorated over an entire year with exhibitions, stage performances and TV and movie specials. Ahead of his May 29 birthday, the comedian was reported to have quipped, "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type...
...town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state to create more Republican members of Congress...
...Hamm did it to save her league. The all-time top scorer in international soccer joined 18 other U.S. female stars in taking a pay cut--in her case a 29% drop, to $60,000--to keep the Women's United Soccer Association alive. Bob Knight did it out of shame. The Texas Tech basketball coach gave back his $250,000 base salary to pay penance for his team's disappointing 16-11 regular-season record. Yes, folks, even the money-charged world of big-time sports is getting into the salary-cutting game...
...back Joe Millionaire, even though its original the-prince-is-a-pauper surprise is well known; the network claims to have a "secret plan" for a new twist. Survivor will be back with a tournament-of-champions edition. And ABC's The Bachelor will return, seeking a mate for Bob Guiney, the funny, big-boned guy spurned last season by bachelorette Trista Rehn--who will marry her beau Ryan Sutter next fall, on ABC, of course. Nothing says "I love you" like a sweeps stunt...