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Placing second out of more than 100,000 students in a national American Legion Oratorical Contest in high school, Richard Gill came to Harvard in 1944 and led the Debate Council as its president, winning the College's Coolidge debate prize and delivering the Class Oration senior year...
...issued a landmark ruling banning compulsory prayer in public schools. After that, any worship on school premises, let alone a prayer club, was widely understood as forbidden. But for the past few years, thanks to a subsequent court case, such groups not only have been legal but have become legion...
...include Alan K. Simpson, a life-long friend, director of the IOP and U.S. Senator of Wyoming from 1978 to 1996; Charles R. Nesson '60, Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and "Acid Phreak," a former member of a group of Internet hackers known as the "Legion of Doom...
...genius at not sinking. His enemies were legion: militarists, who resented his journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last...
...ring inquiry. "I never paid for a woman in my life," De Niro told the newspaper Le Monde, adding that he would never return to France and would tell his friends to stay away, too. He also said he would boycott the Cannes Film Festival and send back the Legion of Honor (one of France's highest civilian decorations) that he was awarded at last year's festival. Later, on a French TV talk show, De Niro changed his tune, saying he would indeed return to France this fall for an exhibition of his late father's paintings. The actor...