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Born Jan. 31, 1929, in London - her schoolteacher father Charles had competed as a gymnast for England in the 1912 Olympics - Jean Merilyn Simmons was blessed from youth with a beauty the camera simply had to capture. The striking quality in Simmons was the waywardness of her beauty: a triangular face dominated by large eyes and high cheekbones leading to a small, voluptuous mouth that could be sullen or amused. Her attitude promised a challenge to any man who would seek to love or tame her. That's clear in the 1946 Great Expectations, where her Estella calls...
With spring semester fast approaching, the time has come to revisit a number of unfortunate but inevitable facts about life at Harvard, ranging from the dreary New England weather to the fact that some of your TFs this semester might not speak understandable English. And new classes mean that, once again, we will each have to spend a sum of cash that could probably feed a small Third World community for a year on textbooks that we'll never look at again once the semester has ended...
...respect for Cadbury's brands, heritage and people" in a statement announcing the deal. Keeping those things in mind may be more important than in most takeovers. Founded 186 years ago when John Cadbury, a Quaker, began selling tea, coffee and hot chocolate out of a store in central England, his eponymous firm enjoys an enduring popularity that distinguishes it from, say, Britain's steel manufacturers or electricity companies. Earlier this month, not far from the site of that original store in Birmingham, fans of Cadbury took part in a mass chocolate-eating event to protest Kraft's interest...
...Joined the Army National Guard when he was 19. His 30-year service includes deployments to Kazakhstan and Paraguay. He is now a lieutenant colonel and also works as the Guard's head defense lawyer for all of New England...
...years, was named Minister of Culture. "The really astonishing thing was that no one pointed out a gay man had been appointed to the Cabinet," he says from Britain's Environment Agency, which he now runs. The same year in Exeter, a constituency in southwestern England, Conservative party candidate Adrian Rogers attacked his openly gay opponent Ben Bradshaw by describing homosexuality as "a sterile, disease-ridden and godforsaken occupation." Voters awarded Bradshaw the seat, in one of the biggest swings away from the Conservatives in the country that year. "He tried to use my sexuality as a political weapon...