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...time to the Selznick Studio. And again, she wanted to expand her range. When Warners kept casting her in all-sugar, no-spice roles, de Havilland balked and was suspended. She then challenged the studio in court, arguing that since the period of suspension was routinely added to the length of the contract, an actor was in danger of permanent involuntary servitude. Miracle of miracles, she won, in what became known as the de Havilland Law of 1945. A year later, she left for Paramount, where she won a Best Actress Oscar for To Each His Own. Two years after...
Some delegates complained about the length of the tour. Others, having been honored with gifts of land and gold, never bothered to say thank you. Then when Bennett took the group to see the Asantehene--the king of Ghana's storied Ashanti tribe--there was little deference shown. A woman who was introduced to the king asked him for a glass of water and tried to sit next to him. "When you do business in Africa, you really need to know what to do," says Bryant. "You never shake someone's hand with your left. When you enter a room...
...School Foundation gave Hillary its inaugural "It Takes a Village" award (named after the senator's 1996 book), largely because they thought hosting a celebrity would attract donors to the foundation's annual fundraising dinner. They were impressed with the Senator's follow-through: She arrived early, spoke at length with teachers and students, and gave an impassioned 20-minute speech on the importance of education...
...Bill Clinton’s request for 100,000 new teachers to reduce classroom sizes,” according to The Washington Post.Mosteller also worked with Professor David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago to determine who had written 12 of the 57 Federalist Papers by calculating sentence length and the frequency of certain words. They eventually concluded that James Madison had written them.While Mosteller was a remarkable statistician, his daughter said he would possibly be remembered most for his role as a teacher and the influence he had on his students, because “he made classroom...
...mass largely untouched. The great era of exploration, apart from the dash for minerals, has passed. Most travelers see red earth and desert outpost from 35,000ft., if at all. Nevertheless, the open road still rewards the curious and those with time enough to appreciate its majesty. The sheer length of the national highway, its obstinate sameness, means the journey can be a lonely and humbling experience, especially so for those in a hurry. So slow down, take in the view with fresh eyes, and meet some of the characters who live on Australia's premier route...