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BECOMING CHARLTON HESTON He was born John Carter, on Oct. 24, 1924, in Evanston, Ill. (He would take his stage name from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's surname.) At his hometown college, Northwestern, he played in student films as Peer Gynt and Marc Antony; already he was set in the heroic mold. In 1944 he married Lydia, also a Northwestern student, and joined the Army Air Force, serving two years as a radio operator. On Broadway in 1947, he played in Antony and Cleopatra with Katharine Cornell (who, the year before, had done Candida with...
...pretty solid attack,” Bobzin said. “We expected their defense to be weaker and we thought we would score in transition.” On paper, the Terriers were not going to be an easy opponent for Harvard. Ranked nationally, BU had only lost Northwestern, the defending national champions and No. 19 George Mason. Additionally, BU beat No. 14 Yale 10-7. The Crimson lost to the Bulldogs 6-13. This loss has not discouraged the Crimson, rather it has made it more determined to improve the little things such as taking care...
When a football player at Northwestern University named Clifton Dawson decided to transfer to the Ivy League in 2003, Harvard was not his first choice...
...Britain spooked. Violent offenses by British under-18s rose 37% in the three years to 2006. Last September, 29-year-old Gavin Waterhouse died from an assault by two boys. It was recorded on a cell phone by a 15-year-old girl. In January, three teenagers from northwestern England were convicted of kicking to death 47-year-old Garry Newlove after he tried to stop them vandalizing his car. In the wake of their trial, the Sun newspaper declared "the most important issue now facing Britain" to be "the scourge of feral youngsters." That isn't just tabloid talk...
...just by changing her sleep pattern, but it should galvanize women to pay more attention to the time they spend in bed. "I don't think we have to wait 20, 30 or 40 years to start intervention," says Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the sleep-disorders center at Northwestern University. "Just as we teach patients to eat well and exercise for their health, we should be telling them to sleep well." In other words, for women, a good night's rest is far more than just beauty sleep...