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...Leadership] Edgar Bronfman Jr. President...
...Edgar A. Wayburn, who graduated from Harvard Medical School cum laude in 1930, will be among those receiving the medal in a White House ceremony next Wednesday...
...Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress. He has "worked to insure basic rights for Jews around the world and to fight anti-Semitism and has spearheaded the effort to retrieve the assets of Holocaust victims and their families," according to the White House tribute...
This is brisk, epic storytelling. Like a shaman in a village circle, the film spins the old saga, made familiar in the Edgar Rice Burroughs books and nearly 50 films, but with a fresh and affecting power. Now it is a safari into the interior of Tarzan's conflicted soul, where he searches not so much for his mate Jane as for his place in a society of men and apes. Though it would be nuts to predict Lion King-size revenues (that film and its ancillary markets made Disney $1 billion in profit), it is also hard to believe...
...sympathies are with all who struggle for justice." She was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality. She once said, "I think God made woman foolish so that she might be a suitable companion to man." She had such left-leaning opinions that the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover kept a file on her. And who were her choices for the most important people of the century? Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin and Lenin. Furthermore, she did not think appearing on the vaudeville circuit, showing off her skills, was beneath her, even as her friends were shocked that she would...