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...imagine why I’m so infatuated with Veronica Mars. The high school-aged Veronica Mars is portrayed by 24-year-old actress Kristen Bell who, despite being best known for a minor role in Pootie Tang, is actually quite talented. Ever since Veronica Mars found her best friend’s murdered body, and was drugged and raped in the aftermath, she became ostracized from her remaining friends. Why? Because her father—then the sheriff—accused the deceased’s father, a very popular local businessman, of murdering his own daughter. Since...
...Decked out in an appropriate costume?he'll wear Spanish-colonial garb for a walk around the old quarter of Intramuros, but don lurid bell bottoms for a tour of the 1970s Cultural Center of the Philippines?Celdran offers up rich narratives that are by turns gossipy (his account of Imelda Marcos' rise and fall is hilarious) and compelling (the description of a bombed-out Manila, at the end of World War II, is unforgettable). They're also filled with the kind of insight that only a native raconteur can provide?Celdran is Manila-born, and with his Spanish, Chinese...
...tone was established early with a sequence of passionate tributes to the Crimson’s senior class—Rochelle Bell, Katie Murphy, and Reka Cserny...
...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The first African-American woman at M.I.T. to get a Ph.D.--in theoretical physics in 1973--Jackson knows a thing or two about overcoming discrimination. Shot at and spit upon by whites while a college student, she went on to do research at Fermilab and Bell Labs. In 1995 she became chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in 2003 was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general-scientific society. In less than five years as the top executive at Rensselaer, in Troy, N.Y., she has managed...
...Jeffrey G. Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics...