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...this as a reflection of Barry’s impatience with himself, with his failing health, and his impatience with our inability to close the gap between the promise of humanity and the performance of human beings.”Today, his family’s personal staff still pick up the phone to chirp, “Mr. Bingham’s office.”“No, we’re not used to him being gone yet,” says Anne E. Douglas, an administrative assistant to the Bingham family. “We?...
...Gore used to jokethat it was easyto pick himout in a roomful of Secret Service agents: He was the stiff one. So he was the first to say how surreal it was to find himself the toast of Cannes last week. Over two days at the celebrated film festival, the former Vice President conducted what he figures were 48 interviews, many of them roundtable sessions, to accommodate the kind of interest that entertainment reporters usually bestow on people named Halle and Beyonc. And then there was that encounter with Hugh Jackman, the Australian heartthrob whose expected summer...
...FOUR-LETTER WORDS BEFORE AGE 4Despite the advantages of raising kids in the Harvard community, child-rearing on a college campus comes with its share of challenges.Doctors advise tutors to keep their children out of the dining halls for their first three months, so they do not pick up any sicknesses when they have such weak immune systems. “Within a week, we were already coming to the dining hall and letting people touch him,” Howell says of her son Ethan. “Keeping him away was just not practical...
...book, nor Ron Howard, the director of the film, claim to purvey anything more than that. Fiction. For those who have forgotten, fiction means “pretend,” i.e. not worth hunger-striking over. People with the penchant to boycott, disrupt, or hunger-strike should pick a more meaningful cause. MATTHEW J. HALL...
...banks, I asked myself the same question I’m asking now. How does my Harvard liberal arts background prepare me to do anything besides more liberal arts? The answer I got was horrifying. “Don’t worry, you’ll pick it up in no time,” my co-workers said. For all of their unique frustrations, the liberal arts have one saving grace: they never stop being challenging. According to my co-workers, the same could not be said of derivatives. Nor, I imagine, could it be said of waiting...