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...been everything from a longshoreman to a film director and has played everyone from Thurgood Marshall to Simon of Cyrene, so SIDNEY POITIER's new role shouldn't be that much of a stretch. The actor has been named the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. Poitier has dual American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present...
According to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, who chairs the Core Review Committee, he will bring legislation, including a quantitative reasoning recommendation, for a discussion before the full Faculty...
...version of her book, It Takes a Village. The market for audiobooks is booming. That may be, in part, because they are compact and convenient and offer pseudo intimacy with sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will be read by Sidney Poitier and Caroline Kennedy. Slightly less ritzy (intended, perhaps, to be played in Dodge pickups instead of Lexuses) is Waylon Jennings' rendition of Waylon: An Autobiography. To those who scoff at such books as "ear candy," Seth D. Gershel, publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has a snappy answer...
...personally would love to have the issue brought to a vote and settled this May," said Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, who has chaired the Core Review Committee through its year and a half of investigation...
Professor Sidney Verba and his committee formally propose legislation to reform the Core two weeks before the full Faculty meeting...