The son of actress and activist Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar, it was announced Sunday.
Ronan Farrow is among 32 American students who will be awarded scholarships to study at Oxford University next year. It's not the first academic distinction for Farrow, who is a special adviser to the U.S. secretary of state for global youth issues.
He had started college as a child, graduating from Bard College in 2004, when he was 15. He started Yale Law School when he was 17 and graduated in 2009.
He's also worked as special adviser for humanitarian and NGO affairs in the State Department's Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Rhodes scholarships provide all expenses for study at the prestigious university in England.
Feeling like the Queen of SoulA beige cashmere hat with fur and matching collar and cuffs worn by Aretha Franklin sold for $400 during a sale of dozens of items once owned by the Queen of Soul. Hats were big draws at a sales event attended Saturday by several hundred people in Livonia, Mich., according to sales distributor Jill Pendergast. "A lot of people found a lot of items," Pendergast said. "Somebody wanted T-shirts that had been stained up. Some people just came for blue jeans. Some people were looking for just shoes." One of Franklin's gowns sold for $550. Pendergast would not say who currently owned the items or how much was raised by the sale. Franklin has said she has no connection to the sale. The Grammy Award-winning artist said the items were left many years ago in a storage locker because she no longer wanted them.
ICY CHALLENGE: A 33-year-old British adventurer preparing for a historic solo crossing of Antarctica was waiting Sunday at a base camp for the weather to improve in order to begin her long journey on skis. Felicity Aston said she has been doing more than physical training to ready herself for the expedition. "I've also been speaking to a sports psychologist about the mental aspect of it because so much of this is about where your head's at rather than your muscles and your physical fitness," Aston said in a telephone interview from the base camp at Union Glacier.
