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...studio initially questioned Wilson's ability to carry an action film, but Hackman--a fan since seeing him in Shanghai Noon--lobbied on Wilson's behalf. "I thought he could bring something unconventional to our scenes working off each other," says Hackman, who plays a tough-love naval commander...
...that one of the United States’ most erudite presidents was also one of the least suited for the patient, critical style of university life. Roosevelt’s senior thesis at Harvard had grown within a couple years of his graduation into a full-scale volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later...
...that one of the United States’ most erudite presidents was also one of the least suited for the patient, critical style of university life. Roosevelt’s senior thesis at Harvard had grown within a couple years of his graduation into a full-scale volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later...
...glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight specialists...Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against...
...same time, the women’s Atlantic Coast Championships were being held at the United States Naval Academy. There, the quintet of sophomores Jennie Philbrick, Diana Rodin, Emily Nielson, and Caroline Dixon and senior Rehana Gubin, representing the No. 6 Harvard women’s sailing team, did not fare quite as well, placing fourteenth. The young team was hampered by a lack of practice time, due both to darkness and to the fact that Harvard owns only two Flying Juniors and two 420s, the boats used in the competition...