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Second-term blues?
What happens to presidents in their second term? In recent memory, plenty. Nixon faced Watergate. Reagan coped with Iran-Contra. Clinton had Monica. Even before that, FDR’s plan to pack the courts with judges friendly to his New Deal plan failed, while Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign in 1958.
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Can I keep my home safe while I'm gone?
Dear Benny, I am headed out of town for the long Thanksgiving weekend, but I’m worried about my home while I’m gone. I’ve heard some police departments around the country offer special home-watch services for out-of-town residents, and I was wondering if the Philadelphia or Penn Police do this as well? — Nervous Traveler Dear Stressed Out, Actually, you’re in luck.
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Music sleuth
Q&A/Recently in the news for authenticating an original Beethoven manuscript, Jeffrey Kallberg has spent his career getting up close and personal with his favorite composers. When Jeffrey Kallberg was 5 years old, his parents sat him down in front of the television to watch a Walt Disney-produced biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven. From that point on, Kallberg knew what he wanted do—live a life in music. It was just a matter of figuring out what that life would be.
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Movable Feast: Bubble Lounge
We at the Current have yet to be convinced about bubble tea. Call us unadventurous but the thought of sucking up gelatinous tapioca balls through an oversized straw somehow fails to appeal. We’re pretty sure we’re in the minority, though, since Sansom Street’s Bubble House has become a true campus success story. The brainchild of Wharton grads, the teahouse and Pan Asian restaurant this month expanded operations, opening Bubble Lounge in the next-door space that used to house Paper Garden. At the bar
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Building the Business of Biotech: Penn's Vagelos Program In Life Sciences and Management
PHILADELPHIA -- To meet the mounting intellectual demands of a rapidly evolving industry, the University of Pennsylvania is introducing the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, a program that draws upon Penn's expertise in both science and business to train the next generation of biotech scholars and leaders.
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Be grateful
Put the holiday rush on hold for one afternoon to remember the true spirit of the season at “Gratitude and Giving,” the 10th annual Peace Around the World event on Dec. 4 from 1:30 to 4:40 p.m. at Penn Museum. There’s plenty for the little ones to do—from craft workshops and storytelling, to dancing and a performance of children’s choral music. The Curio Theatre Company, University City’s newest professional acting troupe, will also present two performances of “The Frog Prince” (right).
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An Envelope Yields a Big Surprise at Penn: $14 Million
PHILADELPHIA University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann got the surprise of her Penn life when, at a dinner for students and scholarship donors, Penn Trustee George Weiss handed her an envelope on which he had written, "Have a nice day, Amy!" Inside was a check for $14 million, earmarked for one of Gutmann passions, undergraduate financial aid.Visibly moved, Gutmann summed up the significance of the moment.
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Renowned Architect David Chipperfield Selected to Create New Master Plan for Penn Museum
PHILADELPHIA -- The renowned British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to develop a comprehensive new master plan to take the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, its complex historical building and its international research, collections and educational outreach into the 21st century.Chipperfield was selected following an international search by a committee of representatives of Penn Museum's Board of Overseers and staff, Penn's School of Design and Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services.
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Alan Charles Kors Wins National Humanities Medal
Alan Charles Kors, a University of Pennsylvania history professor, is one of 12 recipients of the 2005 National Humanities Medal. The National Humanities Medal, first awarded in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Charles Frankel Prize, honors individuals and organizations whose work deepens the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadens citizens' engagement with the humanities or helps preserve and expand America's access to important humanities resources.
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Penn's Norman Newberg Chronicles 18 years of the "Say Yes to Education" Program in New Book
PHILADELPHIA -- In "The Gift of Education: How a Tuition Guarantee Program Saved the Lives of Inner City Youth," Norman Newberg describes how the chance-of-a-lifetime gift of free college tuition and the pressure to use it changed the lives of 112 seventh-grade students from one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods.Newberg is a senior fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.