Word: martin
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Sonn linked Mandela to other black role models, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1890, and Anwar Sadat.He said he wants today's scholars to follow theirexamples and convey the lessons of the past to allof humanity...
...Medical School, Dean Joseph B. Martin says his priorities for the money include increased student aid, two new faculty chairs and the funding of new interdisciplinary programs...
...cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either clothing or a blanket to protect himself from the razor wire) and escaped into the nearby forest...
...prison escape is sensational enough, but even more intriguing to me is the person of Martin Gurule. Here's a guy who climbed over fences topped with razor wire to be free; who risked being shot to death by prison snipers; who is now almost certainly lost in snake-infested woods; who probably hasn't eaten in more than three days, and who has more than 500 officers hot on his trail. Gurule has to avoid not only the authorities but also gun-toting homeowners in the area, many of whom (understandably) are on edge...
...Martin Short first tumbles onstage dressed in a white Little Lord Fauntleroy suit and looking like the sort of kid Spanky used to make fun of in the old Our Gang comedies. He's playing Noble Eggleston, a pampered rich boy so accomplished he goes to both Harvard and Yale. Short moves on to impersonate an assortment of characters, from a wheezing old millionaire to a dictatorial German film director. He sings; he dances; he makes costume changes so fast even David Copperfield would be envious. Is this the hardest-working man in show business? Little Me was created...