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...Thursday's program showed, Forger is a virtuoso organist. A demanding Brahms G minor Prelude and Fugue (with hints of Bach S. 542?) preceded dense music of the late master Jean Langlais and of Helmut Walcha, a superb organist in his own right, whose neo-Baroque compositions spring from a performative mastery of the original idiom...
...panel, moderated by CNN anchor Judy Woodruff, featured Vigdis Finnbogadottir, former president of Iceland (1980-1986); Ruud Lubbers, former prime minister of the Netherlands (1982-1984); Kim Campbell, former prime minister of Canada (1993); Malcolm Fraser, former prime minister of Australia (1975-1983); Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of West Germany (1975-1982); Hanna Suchoka, former prime minister of Poland (1993-1994); and Jennifer Smith, current premier of Bermuda...
...their credit, not every Harvard inventor is stinking rich--at least not yet. Daniel H. Schumann '94 is following his father, Helmut W. Schumann '41, in turning invention into a career. Papa Schumann held patents for the high-speed motors that powered instruments on US bombers during World War II. Son Daniel got his start in the Engineering Department; his junior project offered a 1984-ish solution for office building security. It proposed connecting a booth to a building's entrance. The entrance would be password-protected and impenetrable until the booth's door was secured. The chamber's claustrophobic...
...their credit, not every Harvard inventor is stinking rich--at least not yet. Daniel H. Schumann '94 is following his father, Helmut W. Schumann '41, in turning invention into a career. Papa Schumann held patents for the high-speed motors that powered instruments on US bombers during World War II. Son Daniel got his start in the Engineering Department; his junior project offered a 1984-ish solution for office building security. It proposed connecting a booth to a building's entrance. The entrance would be password-protected and impenetrable until the booth's door was secured. The chamber's claustrophobic...
...Helmut Kohl was Germany's chancellor for over 16 years. During at least five of those years I followed the German press fairly regularly. All I ever learned about his family--already more than I cared to--was that he had two sons. The lack of supply of such news is at least partly due to a lack of demand. French President Francois Mitterand was known to have been sexually enterprising, but when Paris Match disclosed that he had a daughter from one of his mistresses, the magazine's sales plunged...