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...arrow wanting to earn a decent paycheck. He believed in the American Dream, and the Vietnam War made him uneasy. The closest Hanks got to protesting Vietnam, however, was privately rooting for the Smothers Brothers, whose show was eventually canceled by CBS because of their antiwar banter. Immune to Berkeley radicalism and too "unhip" - his word - for Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce, Hanks' comedic sensibility tilted more toward Bob Hope. Hanks was so square that he remembers rebuking a peer in his high school government class for saying in April 1974 that President Richard Nixon would be forced to resign...

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

Cavallaro attended Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, but he did not stay long. An opportunity came by for him to work for human rights organizations in Chile...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dedicated To The Cause: Activists To Take the Helm at Currier House | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...also featured four other American universities: University of California, Berkeley (5), University of Pennsylvania (7), Cornell University (8), and Yale University (10). The rest of the list included the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (4) and two Chinese schools, Peking University (6) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Homepage is Third Most Visited | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...beginning of the 1950s, Ševčenko relocated to the United States to work as a lecturer on ancient and Byzantine history at the University of California at Berkeley...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eminent Byzantinist Dies, Leaves Legacy of Open-Minded Scholarship | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...many scientists, just watching the data come in is a pleasure all by itself. "Kepler is working so amazingly well," says Berkeley's Geoff Marcy, a champion planet hunter in his own right and a member of the Kepler science team, "that the light curves [that is, the dips in light caused by transiting planets] look like they come from a textbook, not a real instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five New Planets: The Kepler Telescope's on a Roll | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

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