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...Isaac Hayes packed a lot of excitement and achievement into his 65-year life, which ended Sunday an hour after his wife Adjowa found him unconscious and collapsed near a treadmill in his Memphis, Tenn., home. He had written hit songs, made platinum records, starred in movies, been elected to two music Halls of Fame and provided the voice of Chef on South Park, which gave him a memorable if premature send-off in 2006. But the biggest triumph for this self-described Black Moses had to be on April 10, 1972, when his Theme from Shaft won the Academy...
...star Katherine Heigl). One of her reasons for leaving was to prevent Jeffs from marrying her daughter - nine of Merrill Jessop's daughters are believed to be married to Jeffs, according to experts who study the sect. Other names bandied about as the potential next Prophet include Jeffs' brother Isaac and even another Jessop - William Roy Jessop. The Utah dossiers sent to Texas describe Willie Jessop as "the most serious threat affiliated with the FLDS," and someone who "reportedly has a passion for violence, weapons (legal and illegal) and explosives," and is also known as "Willie the Thug" or "King...
...Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned...
...traffic accident that killed Harvard graduate student Isaac J. Meyers last month led the Cambridge City Council to pass an order prioritizing pedestrian safety last night. In a letter to the Council yesterday, City Manager Robert W. Healy said that though the investigation into the events surrounding Meyers’ death has yielded information about the factors that led to the accident, it is still incomplete, This allows for the possibility that factors apart from those under the city’s control were the causes of Meyers’ death. But councillor Henrietta S. Davis said that no matter...
...Against Newton” as the title for the group’s May 3 Arts First performance in the Science Center. “I chose it to make people think that the crazy things we do break the laws of physics,” says Club treasurer Isaac S. Shivvers ’10. “It was late, late at night,” he adds. Skinner, the Club’s president, was recently in the Adams House courtyard, decked out with a costume of colorful pajamas and stilts, and accompanied by Shivvers in street...