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Dropping the Political Ball: During a memorial service for radical activist Abbie Hoffman at his boyhood temple in Worcester Wednesday, former Boston Celtic Bill Walton recalled meeting Hoffman while he was underground, on the run from a possible life imprisonment for cocaine trafficking charges...
Invisible behind the plethora of pages in the OED2 are hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed...
Soprano Julie Wu '88 returns to Dunster House this weekend to present works by Haydn, Debussy, Brahms, Strauss and Walton. Wu, who was a Literature concentrator while a resident of Dunster, has studied voice at the Longy School of Music for several years and has performed locally with the Tanglewood Chorus. Earlier this year, Wu sang the soprano lead in Dunster's Christmas presentation of Handel's Messiah. Saturday's voice recital is free and open to the public...
...Walton is still the richest man in America, but his fortune may be dented a bit because he missed a court deadline. A state judge in Fort Worth slapped his Wal-Mart Stores chain with an $11.6 million fine because Walton, 70, was 17 days late in delivering a deposition. The chairman's testimony was subpoenaed for a trial in which a customer demanded $6 million after slipping in a Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The tardiness penalty dwarfed the $35,658.30 the jury awarded Andrew Carrizales, a Houston mechanic, for his injuries. The company will appeal Walton...
...news will be broken, when the Atlanta- based network airs CNN Presents the TIME Man of the Year, with anchor Mary Anne Loughlin and correspondent Mark Walton as co-hosts. The 30-minute program, produced in association with TIME, will explain how the selection was made and offer an in-depth profile. "It was a unique challenge to translate something that is essentially a print story into a visual and dynamic television presentation," says David McGowan, TIME's special-projects director, who assisted CNN's effort. "CNN's life was not made any easier by the fact that...