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...boated down the Ganges, you climbed Mount Herschel on Antarctica you went on that three-year, four-wheel-dirve expedition to the South Pole. What was the allure of Antarctica? It was a very good challenge. Vivian Fuchs wanted to cross the Antarctic and carry out the task that [Ernest] Shackleton had tried. He invited me on the expedition, I think mainly because he felt that would enable him to get support from the government. It was a good challenge, and it was snow and ice, which I enjoy...
...Jasper Irving, played by Tom Cruise, reveals the government’s new strategy for the war in the Middle East to ambitious journalist Janine Roth, played by Meryl Streep. The plan, implemented as the Senator discloses the information to Roth, impacts the lives of two recently-graduated soldiers: Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Peña) and Arian Finch (Derek Luke), who are under active duty in the front lines of the War on Terror. Their trials constitute the second storyline. The third and least thrilling story line (although no terribly high standards are set by the other two) takes place...
...brief illness at 42. The death of his wife, the lovely Deborah Kerr, seems to have been too much to bear. Barely three weeks after she died, writer Peter Viertel passed away, leaving behind his own legacy of books and screenplays. Best known for parlaying his relationships with writer Ernest Hemingway and director John Huston into novels like White Hunter, Black Heart, Viertel had a gift for exposing the dark nature that accompanied their genius. He made his mark in Hollywood by adapting famous novels like The Old Man and the Sea into popular films. Viertel...
...textile industry, ably defended over the years by Senators Jesse Helms and Ernest Hollings of the Carolinas, has long been one of the most aggressive lobbies for tariffs and quotas. Such protection hurts more people than it helps. Stern calls agricultural subsidies "a rip-off" for citizens of rich countries, who have to pay higher prices and taxes than they would in a world where goods were traded freely. But those hurt by free trade--farmers and textile workers who might have to shift jobs--are always easier for politicians to identify and support than the much larger number...
...What are we doing for our time?” he said. The former students added similar sentiments, expressing hope that their actions would inspire others to take similar risks. “Fifty years ago, we had a vision about connecting education with opportunity,” said Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine. “I said if Little Rock Central was going to be desegregated, I wanted to be part of it.” While the integration of Central High School was a decisive historical moment in the civil rights movement, the panel...