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Thorsell admits that when they saw what the interface was going to look like, some regular ROM donors thought "that box" was a little too crazy. "They just couldn't understand us doing this," he says. But others, like Michael Lee-Chin, the billionaire chairman of Portland Holdings, who gave $30 million to put his name on the addition, came through precisely because there was something new on the horizon. So far the museum has raised $228 million toward its goal of $240 million, a sum that covers both Libeskind's new building and extensive renovations to the galleries...
...serious work too. He won a Tony in 1962 (in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) and a nomination for directing Julie Christie in a 1997 revival of The Gin Game, and he tutored Bette Midler, Peter Boyle and Lily Tomlin in acting. The openly gay sitcom regular (The Ghost & Mrs. Muir; Love, American Style) once joked that his near constant TV presence was his revenge on an NBC executive who told him that "they don't allow queers on television...
...Perhaps Internet actions speak louder than survey answers. Take the cost of gasoline. Despite gasoline prices reaching an all-time high this month, searches for "gas prices" during September 2005, when gas prices breached the $3/gallon mark, were six times greater than last week when the average gallon of regular gas hit $3.21. But to get at the question of what consumers think about gas prices and how they view the effect on the economy, you have to dig a little deeper. For example, how do soaring pump prices affect our vacation plans? Visits to U.S. travel sites are down...
...hopes soon to be out of the Intensive Care Unit,” Knowles’s wife, Jane S. Knowles, said in a statement this week. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine—the man who first appointed Knowles dean in 1991—has been regularly checking in on Knowles and expressed similar optimism. “Obviously, it’s wonderful and slightly miraculous that he’s come this far,” Rudenstine said in a phone interview yesterday. “And we’ll just keep hoping that he?...
There should also be more checks on the performance of masters. When their tenure comes up for renewal, the College should seek extensive input from tutors and students, weighing whether the masters have fulfilled their duties to the House effectively. Evaluation should also be more regular. Providing feedback every five years when a master’s renewable term is up does a significant disservice to those students whose lives could be made better in the interim...