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Born in France, she studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bourgeois received an honorary degree from Yale in 1977 and won a National Medal of Arts...
Born in France, she studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bourgeois received an honorary degree from Yale in 1977 and won a National Medal of Arts...
Though Ali won the gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960, at the time the experts didn't think much of his boxing skills. His head, eyes wide, seemed to float above the action. Rather than slip a punch, the traditional defensive move, it was his habit to sway back, bending at the waist--a tactic that appalled the experts. Lunacy...
...odds with President Roosevelt and the interventionists, my father was branded a traitor, a Copperhead and even a Nazi. When he traveled to Germany to review German air power at the request of the American military attache in Berlin, he was given a medal by his Nazi hosts and later ignored public appeals to repudiate and return it. (He had in fact sent it to a museum, as he did other awards he received throughout his life.) Finally, and disastrously, my father made a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1941, identifying as the three groups unwisely advocating U.S. entry...
They played like the Olympians they are--"Rugger" won a gold medal for the United States at Nagano in 1998 by defeating "Bots" and her Canadian...