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...Union drummer boy. Her former mistress Mattie Jameson is now a grief-crazed Confederate widow swept along with Sherman's forces. The far better-composed Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Georgia judge, rediscovers herself as a Union battlefield nurse while falling pointlessly in love with the coldly brilliant field surgeon Wrede Sartorius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Student Of History | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

Houston, a 1922 graduate of HLS, is known as a brilliant Supreme Court litigator who laid the groundwork necessary for the NAACP’s victory in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. At HLS, he was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. He went on to become dean of Howard Law School, where he oversaw the education of nearly a quarter of the nation’s African-American law students...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Institute Aims To Continue Houston’s Work | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...sport, turning the once-exclusive pastime into a budget-travel clich?. So what's a multimillionaire to do? Follow in the footsteps of shipping magnate and Jackie Kennedy hubby Aristotle Onassis and buy your very own island, of course. With more than 1,400 isles dotting the country's brilliant blue seas, yet less than 200 of them inhabited, Greece is a natural attraction for island shoppers who want to enjoy clear waters, sandy beaches and fantastic summer weather far from tourists and prying paparazzi lenses. State officials refuse to disclose the actual number of islands for sale, but high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Big Fat Greek Island | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Chan, best known for the handover-era drama Comrades: Almost a Love Story, can stop worrying. The early word is that his musical, Perhaps Love, is brilliant. The $10 million movie was selected for the closing spot in the Venice Film Festival before Chan had finished post-production. (The movie will be released in December.) Indie icon Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying Daggers), pop idol Jacky Cheung (Ashes of Time) and luminous mainlander Zhou Xun (The Little Chinese Seamstress) star as actors in contemporary Shanghai filming a musical set in the decadent 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: Movies | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...Roberts is obviously a brilliant lawyer, and everything that I have read suggests that he is a man of excellent character,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate to Commence Hearings on Roberts | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

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