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...According to Facebook’s Network Top Ten statistics, there are some subtle but meaningful distinctions between the average Harvardian and the average Yalie. On a typical day, Joe “Eli” Yale relaxes to the music of his favorite artists, U2 (Yale’s #1, Harvard’s #2), The Beatles (#3 and #5, respectively), and, of course, Beethoven (Yale’s #7; not on Harvard’s list). He engages in his favorite activities—reading, politics, and music, in that order—as well as some other...
...Corbijn's work is distinctively grainy, black and white or with a sandy brown or metallic blue sheen. It's unglamorous, but that's the point. "For all that kind of stylized decadence in some of his photography, his eye was always mocking it, mocking celebrity," says Bono of U2, whom Corbijn helped transform from a scruffy band of Irish rockers with mullets to global superstars. "It's a Dutch reformer's eye. I don't think he even knows how Protestant he is." Corbijn's relationship with U2 stretches back 25 years and has always gone beyond the role...
...Shihada currently lives in New York City and has been working full time as an artist for 22 years. After learning to leave his contact information on the sidewalk as a signature of sorts, he began to get calls about projects. His list of past-clients includes U2, Armani, Disney, MTV and Adidas. He even recently appeared (as himself) in the movie “No Reservations.” “I was doing a mural of Cinderella in front of a house for a little girl’s birthday party when the director walked...
DIED He had the lasttelevised interview with John Lennon and the first U.S. TV appearance of U2. But longtime NBC talk-show host Tom Snyder was best known for the parody of his intense, energetic, brusque style by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd, who famously leaned into his subjects and let out a deafening guffaw. From his stark, smoke-filled studio, Snyder grilled such diverse subjects as Charles Manson and Spiro Agnew and tackled topics like male prostitution, censorship and suicide. Utterly authentic and at ease with viewers, the veteran journalist made a huge hit of Tomorrow, which...
Martin Luther King was the first non-faculty individual to be invited to address seniors on Class Day. He accepted the invitation prior to his assassination in April 1968, and his wife Coretta Scott King spoke in his place. Mother Teresa spoke in 1982, and U2 lead singer and activist Bono addressed seniors...