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...OFFICER] GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR...
Dorothy Q. Thomas, a 1995 Bunting Institute Peace Fellow, won one of the this year's 29 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants" yesterday. Thomas is an international women's rights activist and founded the Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch...
This year, MacArthur grant winners includeauthor Ishmael Reed and cattle rancher WilliamMcDonald...
...Watch one, watch the other: Unapologetic fans of old Hollywood will feel incomplete if they don't rewind at this point to 1931 for The Front Page. OK, it's the same movie -- the first screen version of the manic Hecht-MacArthur play. But it's just as good, which is more than can be said for the 1974 version with Walter Matthau or Switching Channels (1988) for that matter. Lesson: the remake game never works twice...
Among the scheduled speakers is Beate Sirota Gordon, the only female framer of the MacArthur Constitution--which was instituted in Japan after World War II--and a present-day activist. She is of Russian origin but made a mark on Japanese history when she wrote the provision that guaranteed "essential equality of the sexes" in Japan...