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HONORED. Jason Dunham, 22, Marine corporal who died in April 2004 after diving on a grenade to save fellow Marines; with the Congressional Medal of Honor, the U.S.'s highest military award; by President Bush at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. The medal for Dunham was just the second Congress has bestowed during the 31/2-year Iraq...
...DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces?1951's Southland depicted a lynching?that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces--1951's Southland depicted a lynching--that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
...football—to comply with Yale’s recently imposed regulations. The new restrictions will ban on-campus gatherings of more than 20 people and will prohibit tailgating after the game’s third quarter. Before the announcement of the new restrictions, Yale senior Mike L. Dunham, who lives in the party suite known as the “Sextet” in Jonathan Edwards College, said he and his roommates had discussed throwing parties in coordination with other party suites. In the wake of the new regulations, however, the “Sextet?...
...signed seven licensing deals last year to get the New Balance logo on gear from sunglasses to exercise equipment. He recently signed on to sponsor major league lacrosse and in February bought a lacrosse-equipment maker, Warrior. He has also expanded into hiking footwear with the purchase of the Dunham brand, and he is working with retailers to open more single-brand New Balance shops, aiming to have "a couple hundred" in the U.S. by 2006. Worldwide, Davis projects sales growth of 10% to 12% over 2003, to more than $1.4 billion this year...