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...written a wide range of arts stories while serving as book editor and eventually running the Globe’s Sunday “Focus” section. “Concentrating in Hist and Lit prepares you to write about anything,” he said of his undergraduate studies at Harvard...
...receive a portion of the $8.2 million in fellowship grants, an average of $40,000 for each fellow. Ruggie will be using his funding to take a sabbatical from teaching beginning on July 1 to conduct research and interviews for his upcoming book. “I plan to write a book on how to improve human rights performance of companies, focusing particularly on transnational corporations,” Ruggie said. Ruggie said he plans to evaluate not only the voluntary, but also the national and international legal measures that can help achieve human rights compliances from businesses...
Clarke’s death marks the end of one of the most influential careers in the genre. Clarke began his career in the 1930s penning short stories for magazines. Even after being confined to a wheelchair due to post-polio syndrome, the prolific author continued to write. His final novel, “The Last Theorem,” was completed just days before his death...
...told her parents about the African student at school, they invited him over for dinner. Her father didn't notice when his daughter reached out to hold the man's hand, according to Obama's book. Her mother thought it best not to cause a scene. As Obama would write, "My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people playing in her head." (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Obama on Inauguration...
...After Ann's death, her daughter dug through her artifacts, searching for Ann's story. "She always did want to write a memoir," Soetoro-Ng says. Finally, she discovered the start of a life story, but it was less than two pages. She never found anything more. Maybe Ann had run out of time, or maybe the chemotherapy had worn her out. "I don't know. Maybe she felt overwhelmed," says Soetoro-Ng, "because there was so much to tell."-With reporting by Zamira Loebis and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta...