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...Hiram Leong Fong [MILESTONES, Aug. 30] had a long political career that began in 1938, when he served in the House of Representatives for the Territory of Hawaii. When Hawaii became the U.S.'s 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959, Fong won a Senate seat. TIME described his background in an Aug. 10, 1959, article...
...know their story. They don't know their whole story, but they know their chapter. Like Zhang Ziyi, because she knows she's going to play a ballroom dancer in the 60s, and she doesn't have any idea what that is. She's coming from a totally different background. I have to give her a lot of homework. I have to give her all of these films from the period, so she can understand the gestures, the actions. And also I give her all the costumes, because she has to get those manners down. So she simply took...
Criminal defense attorney and Court TV commentator Peter T. Ellikan notes Pring-Wilson’s background played no role in the April 12, 2003 stabbing...
...result, Ellikan says he believes assessments of Pring-Wilson’s character or background will play only a minor role in the jury’s ultimate decision...
Pring-Wilson’s background is more likely to lighten his sentence if he is convicted, Ellikan says...