Word: leone
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...were certainly not the only villains in this story; even the infamous Mr. Kurtz of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness makes an appearance. Specifically, Hochschild has found no less than three men who could feasibly have served as models for the character of Kurtz. One of these men, Leon Rom, was station chief at Stanley Falls, on which Conrad's "Inner Station" may be based, and kept 21 heads as a decoration around his flower bed. But Hochschild makes an important distinction--he asserts that while Conrad's tale may have many levels of literary significance, it is also...
...Leon Jaroff...
...Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, public serviceprofessor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy Schoolof Government (KSG), introduced Lewis after aperformance by the Kuumba Singers...
Growing Up Sad: Childhood Depression and Its Treatment by Dr. Leon Cytryn and Dr. Donald McKnew (Norton), sensitively explores childhood depression and helps parents spot problems in the home. "Seldom do we look upon children as small human beings, struggling like the rest of us to make sense of life, to satisfy needs, and to meet challenges as they arise," say the authors. "We tend to assume that children are somehow protected by their innocence...
...policy of affirmative action began in 1969 as a faculty resolution made in response to the civil rights protests of that year and the subsequent assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., said Dr. Leon Eisenberg, the Maude and Lillian Presley professor of social medicine, emeritus...