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...seemed sometimes that Heaney was too quick to disparage the political in defense of the poetic, he was redeemed in the end by a president. In a 1995 speech, former President Bill Clinton claimed that some of his favorite lines were an extra chorus that Heaney wrote into his version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes...
Jacobs, along with Michael A. Silverman ’05, served as an extra in Mona Lisa Smile, a Revolution Studios drama which recently wrapped up a week of filming on the Wellesley campus. Billed as a counterpart to the 1989 hit Dead Poets Society, the film stars Julia Roberts as an idealistic postgraduate who arrives at the prestigious women’s college in 1953 to teach art history. While Roberts has received the lion’s share of media attention over the past week (including a large front-page photo in the Boston Herald), her supporting cast...
...sort of bait and switch. Citibank met with Trintomar three times in the spring of 1992 to pitch its original $66 million refinancing proposal, and in a letter dated Sept. 9, Trintomar asked for a formal proposal. The next day, Citibank sent a letter outlining the extra $96.5 million loan in several pages of eye-glazing detail. Trintomar officials, thinking the smaller loan was still on the table, kept negotiating. As Trintomar edged closer to default, the managing director of Citibank Trinidad, Suresh Maharaj, turned up the pressure. "I am sure that you will appreciate that we cannot hold open...
Leaf peepers may have to be extra determined in their quest this fall. With drought conditions still affecting almost half of the continental U.S., many leaves are falling from trees before they get a chance to change colors. And with wildfires still burning in Western states, the foliage across many areas of the Rockies could be obscured by smoke. But there are some bright spots: peepers in the northernmost parts of the Midwest, upstate New York and northern Vermont can anticipate the most intense fall colors of the past few years...
...advantage of this change for student producers is that if a show loses money, HTAG will use its extra funds to cover the balance...