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...Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) honored the “100 greatest living American gold-medal champions.” William J. Cleary Jr ’56-’58, one-time Harvard student, hockey player, hockey coach, and athletics director, was among them.The honor was the culmination of a lifetime of honors and successes for the athlete, who took a year off from Harvard to play at his first Winter Olympics in 1956, where he helped the U.S. team net a silver medal. Cleary, who did not return requests for an interview...
...everything that Albom has touched has turned into publishing gold. "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" have kept the Detroit writer on the bestseller list for years. His new book, his second novel, explores themes of family, divorce and regrets. A son loses his mother, but years later is given the opportunity to spend one day with her. The author met with a number of booksellers at an hourlong meeting at BookExpo. His publisher hopes the sportscaster Albom can make it a hat trick...
...even if he didn't remember asking before. As a performer he's more frenetic, having made a career of playing supercharged supporting characters as if he were Al Pacino on a leash. His talent is being big and real simultaneously. Piven's brilliant, nuanced take on agent Ari Gold in HBO's Entourage (which returns to Sundays at 10 p.m. E.T. on June 11) is a cartoon of male rage--and Piven says he's holding back. "I could actually be a lot bigger," he says, crediting his theater work in Chicago, where his parents ran a company that...
Kabila's ascension to the leadership of Zaire, a nation of 45 million people the size of Western Europe and rich in diamonds, gold, cobalt and copper, came with stunning speed. Mobutu's ouster was the culmination of a seven-month military campaign that began as an uprising among Tutsi tribesmen in southeastern Zaire after they were ordered expelled from the country. With backing from the anti-Mobutu governments of Uganda, Rwanda and Angola, Kabila took control of and expanded the rebel movement, sweeping east to west across the vast Central African nation almost without opposition until he was camped...
Before he began his remarkable military campaign, Kabila had been dismissed as what a Clinton Administration official called a "bar revolutionary," who spent most of his time drinking in taverns far from the front or negotiating shady gold and diamond deals. A former Marxist who once held a group of Americans hostage, Kabila is still considered ideologically suspect in Washington. While he is reported to have restored law and order and welcomed foreign investment to the areas he has conquered, he has also begun "social re-education" programs. And so far, U.S. analysts say, he has shown a worrisome antipathy...