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Maimonides was born on Passover eve in the Spanish city of Cordoba in 1135 and died in Egypt in 1204. He was 13 when the Almohades, a fanatical Muslim movement, seized control of his hometown. The Almohades gave Jews the choice of death, conversion or exile. The Maimon family, choosing to depart, wandered for a decade before settling in Fez, then the capital of Morocco. Maimonides, educated by his father and other local rabbis, soon began his first major project, a commentary on the Mishnah, which is part of the Talmud, the massive and authoritative compilation of Jewish law. Maimonides...
...current role as TV's Hotel owner, embraced heartland innocence and brittle sophistication; after a stroke; in New York City. Baxter, the granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for The Razor's Edge (1946) and was nominated for her scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950); 20 years later she played Margo Channing, the aging star against whom Eve schemed, in Applause, a Broadway musical based on the film...
...write to you on the eve of May 25th, the last day of finals. Lamont is quiet, deserted. Only a few stragglers like me remain, weary from studying. The building, too, softly bids farewell to the last of the irritated but understanding friends. Goodbye, Fair Harvard. The day will come when even this message will be rubbed away, but God knows, you are in the forever. I'll miss you. 5/24/85...
HOSPITALIZED. Anne Baxter, 62, actress currently starring in TV's Hotel who won a suppporting-role Oscar for The Razor's Edge (1946); in critical condition after suffering a stroke on the street; in New York City. In her best-known film, All About Eve (1950), she played an actress who schemed to succeed a star, portrayed by Bette Davis; in real life, Baxter took over the grande dame role in Hotel in 1983 after Davis was sidelined by a stroke...
...legislature has been hard pressed to meet a deadline set two months ago by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Higgins to reduce the population of the state's 13 men's prisons and three inmate-reception centers from roughly 7,800 to 7,019 by New Year's Eve. Prisoners had been sleeping in gyms and administrative centers, and many, like Simerly, had been lodged in county jails to alleviate overcrowding. Construction of maximum-security facilities has not kept up with need. Brushy Mountain Prison in mountainous east Tennessee, which gained unwanted renown when Martin Luther King's killer...