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Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth Jeffrey A. Frankel, who taught Calderón in the late 1990s, said that he was impressed by “the determination and success with which [Calderón] set out to master the subject of international finance...
When Astaire, in Swing Time, performed the Bojangles of Harlem number, he was paying tribute to Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, tap master extraordinaire and the prime exponent of a dance form developed on slave plantations and in vaudeville halls. Three of Robinson's aged contemporaries--Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green and Sandman Sims--still hoofing in 1979, were the stars of George T. Nierenberg's intimate documentary about a challenge dance at a Harlem nightclub. Their story is poignant, their dexterity poetic, their legacy immense...
Wilson will help operate the shuttle’s robot arm, which includes a special extension equipped with new cameras and laser scanners to assess the vehicle’s health. As the load master, Wilson will maneuver the mechanical appendage to deploy and retrieve cargo packages from to and from the space station...
Wilson received her master of science degree from the University of Texas and was selected as one of 35 Americans to join NASA’s class of 1996. At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, Wilson has worked in Mission Control as a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for orbiting space crews. In 2003, she served as lead CAPCOM for the ill-fated Columbia mission...
...futile hope. Unusually for this season and place, it was a windless day: no sailing vessels would be going anywhere quickly. And, in the end, the whaleships' masters aboard their unarmed vessels had little choice but to comply with the Confederates, who that day and for the past few weeks, had stubbornly refused to believe the reports that had reached them of the war's end. Indeed, the master of the William Thompson, one of the captured whalers, recalled that a Confederate officer "exultantly stated that he did not believe Lee had surrendered...