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Born in Haiti as the illegitimate son of a French planter and slave trader and his Creole mistress, Audubon was sent to France for a brief education and then to live on a property owned by his father near Philadelphia, where he became enamored of local birds and wildlife. But a series of businesses he tried all failed; in 1819 he had to declare bankruptcy. That was when, at age 35, he decided to enlarge the collection of American bird paintings he had done over the years and prepare them for publication...
Kulik summarized the discussions Tuesday night, which began with a "brief introduction of each other and what we'd done. [We talked about] what Radcliffe had and hadn't done...
...After a brief stint working as a lawyer, Ma took up journalism as a full-time occupation in Newsweek's Washington office...
...would take a beautiful crunchy Granny Smith apple out to the bank of the Charles every day, sit down on a patch of grass, close my eyes, try to recreate my tabula rasa and slowly concentrate on each and every bite until even the core was gone. For the brief moments that the juice stored in the white center would be forced from the apple's pores and into my mouth, the outline of clarity was mine. Dissatisfied with only the shell of an answer, but convinced that wisdom was located somewhere between a Granny Smith and a baked trout...
Though the University did not use the system of quotas under attack in Bakke, it submitted a friend-of-the-court brief defending institutions' right to use non-metric qualities including ethnicity and gender in selecting students...