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...books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general who overthrew civilian President Dumarsais Estime in 1950 oversaw Haiti's most marked period of prosperity, the result of a record influx of tourists and high coffee exports...
According to Stuart Rojstaczer, a geology professor at Duke University, and inventor of the Rank Your College website, college rankings are just a scam—and rankyourcollege.com is no more arbitrary than any other ranking...
...readers are left wondering just how deep Ellis' empathy runs. Last week Ellis, an icon on the South Hadley, Mass., campus of Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught for the past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam...
...readers are left wondering just how deep Ellis' empathy runs. Last week Ellis, an icon on the South Hadley, Mass., campus of Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught for the past 29 years, was exposed as an inventor of his own world of imaginative appeal. For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam...
...Saturday, my mom lost one of her most formidable adversaries when Cliff Hillegass, inventor of the little yellow books, died at the age of 83. Hillegass abdicated responsibility for his eponymous Notes when he sold the company for $14 million back in 1999, but the cheerful yellow and black design, which has served as a beacon for lazy or overworked high schoolers since 1958, remains the same...