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...book Band of Brothers was based. On March 2, the museum, which will soon open a Pacific-theater wing, hosted a reception after a local screening of The Pacific, attended by the last wave of old-timers who consider V-J day a personal accomplishment. Wherever Hanks travels, veterans accost him with thank-yous. "It's pretty heady," Hanks says. "But now the Korean War guys have started coming up to me, saying, 'Hey, what about us?' I get good-natured guff from so many veterans saying things like, 'When you going to do something on Vietnam?' And the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

Then, a man dressed as Puff the Magic Dragon took the stage to accost Hathaway, who was instructed to slay the creature by a man playing Meryl Streep’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anne Hathaway Gets Royal Treatment | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...Book: The Square today is all commercial banks, but it wasn’t always this way. In the fifties and sixties, Harvard was known as the Kremlin on the Charles, and rebellious students occupied administration buildings (witness the monstrosity that is riot-proof Canaday). Communists will still accost you in front of the Coop, and the venerable Revolution Bookstore is still in business on Mass. Ave. With Mao’s book, you will be able to separate true radical from poseur—and get a head start on your course in Chinese history...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese and Amy Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Must-Haves for Life in College | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...like he went off the rails about criticizing Obama.The things he said about Obama were not nearly as caustic as the things Hillary used to say about his opponents. He felt that he owed it to Hillary to do for her as she did for him. She would literally accost his opponents. When he was running for Governor of Arkansas, she would stop his opponents in front of the state house and start yelling at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bill Clinton On the Couch | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...American hits and the sounds of the immortal Korean rapper Crown J. The gay community heads off to party at “Homo Hill” in Itaewon, the international district. And wasted government officials delay their trips to “massage parlors” to accost groups of Americans and buy them rounds of whiskey bombs. (Thanks, Mr. Choo...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: Finding the Seoul of Korea | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

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