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...creativity with humility and grace. You have to live your life from the inside-out and not the outside-in.” He went on to name Oprah and Will Smith as celebrities who have managed to keep their good nature and integrity in the face of fame...
Gates’ departure grouped him with a host of Harvard dropouts who achieved post-Cambridge fame...
...must confess that I was originally going to fashion this column rather polemically. Someone like Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86, I had envisioned writing, deserves fame like the Chicago Seven do. Not in the way of a celebrated academic, but in the style of a disenchanted voice shouting against the powers that be—which, from the ivory tower, Palmer has done frequently in any case...
...classical guitar before finding a mentor in the somewhat mystical figure of Sergiu Celibidache, the Romanian-born conductor who famously declared that recorded music was like kissing a dead woman. As principal conductor at the Stuttgart Radio Symphony and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Gelmetti later found success - but not fame. Instead, when the SSO's then artistic administrator began telling international arts managers about Gelmetti's appointment in 2002, "many of them had never heard of him," Calnin recalls. "I think it's because he's gone against the star system that a lot of the big artist managers push...
...asked Tom Hayden, who earned worldwide fame as one of the “Chicago Seven” put on trial for organizing the 1968 demonstrations, whether he thought the violence of conventions past might rear its ugly head in 2004. Hayden, whose notoriety was rekindled on this campus when Harvard’s own Miami Four were arrested after traveling with him to observe globalization protests in December, says that while it’s a different time, he’s worried about a parallel emerging. If authorities look at quelling protest as a question of homeland security...