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King of hearts
The front room of the Kelly Writers House is set up like a nightclub — candles on little tables, dimly lit. A disembodied voice announces, “The man, the mystery, Jonathan London is here for you.” That’s not all that’s here for you. London (C’01) bounds up to the front. “For those of you who didn’t have a nice Valentine’s Day, this show is for you.” Turns out at the end, it’s also for his girlfriend. But more about that later. About 40 people stay for an hour-and-a-half comic monologue about Jonathan London’s love life. They laugh. They cry.
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New Wharton deputy dean
David C. Schmittlein, the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Marketing and Chairman of the Marketing Department at the Wharton School, is the school’s new Deputy Dean as of March 1. He succeeds Patrick T. Harker, who was named Dean of the school Feb. 8.
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Musical McCourt
Here’s a St. Patrick’s Day treat: a colorful, funny musical chronicling the history of the Irish in America. “The Irish...and How They Got That Way,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (“Angela’s Ashes”), at the Annenberg Center March 17, uses song, story and dance to explore the whole panorama of Irish-American history and folklore, including both its charm — songs like “Danny Boy” and “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” — and its tragedy — the potato famine of the 1840s, the 1863 draft riots.
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Kelley out, Traber in
William Kelley, M.D., has stepped aside as chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and dean of the School of Medicine. President Judith Rodin announced on Feb. 17 that Peter G. Traber, M.D., chair of the department of medicine, will serve as interim Health System CEO and Medical School dean until a permanent successor is found.
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For good fiction, facts matter
Using sleuthing skills worthy of his fictional investigator, Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith tracks down the historical, political and emotional minutiae necessary to bring his characters and stories to life. During a Feb. 11 appearance at Kelly Writers House cosponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Library’s 250th Anniversary Celebration and the Alumni/Library Friends Book Club, Smith described some of his research methods during a question-and-answer session. The Q&A followed a brief reading from his latest novel, “Havana Bay.”
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Science is no religion
This is a wonderful time to be an evolutionary biologist. Thanks to advances in a variety of different fields, from paleontology to genetics, we can now understand better than ever the deep family relationships between all the living organisms on our planet. We can not only put together a detailed family tree of life, but we can also begin to understand some of the most important questions in biology.
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Time crunch hits home
Jerry Jacobs takes his work very personally. “Ever since I’ve been studying how busy we all are, I’ve been busier than ever,” the professor of sociology said. “This research has been much more personally significant to me than anything else that I’ve ever done.”
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Back to Sundance
“World Cafe” host David Dye returns to Park City, Utah, for a second week of live events from the Sundance Music and Film Festival beginning March 6. Other notable s dropping by these next few weeks include Shelby Lynne, Yo-Yo Ma, James Galway and the Chieftains. Thursday, March 2 Singer/ songwriter John Flynn visits the studio
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“Counterfeiting in Colonial America”
Kenneth Scott Foreword by David R. Johnson 320 pages, 10 illustrations, $19.95 paper Counterfeiting flourished in the colonies. As David R. Johnson explains in his new foreword to Kenneth Scott’s classic book, “The combination of a generally inefficient law enforcement system, the gradual proliferation of colonial issues to copy, and the reliance on private citizens to prosecute criminals made it difficult to capture, prosecute, or punish counterfeiters.
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WXPN picks the hits
Bruce Warren has heard the future of rock ’n’ roll on the South Dakota prairie. And because he has, listeners to Penn’s public radio station, WXPN (88.5 FM), will hear it too. And if they behave as they usually do when Warren hears something interesting, before too long people across America will all be talking about Indigenous, a hard-driving band of Native American blues-rockers Warren referred to as “the next Allman Brothers.”