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Arthur Miller, the world-renowned playwright widely regarded as a pioneer of American drama, recounted his experiences with the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and 1950s and the creation of "The Crucible" in a lecture Monday afternoon...
Vail joined the Harvard Faculty in 1984 and was a pioneer in the field of African history at Harvard...
Shoe repair-shop owner Kim Hyoung Hwan might be startled to hear himself described as a pioneer of the type President Kim extols. But his shop in the port city of Inchon is a good place to see some of the changes sweeping Korea. After losing his job as a purchasing manager at a now bankrupt equipment-manufacturing firm, Kim noticed people were spending more on shoe repairs to save money during the turndown. Demand was also rising as paternalistic companies cut back on the coupons for new shoes they used to hand out to employees as part of Korea...
...comes by to help her mother dish out bowls of steaming white rice to go with the hot pots. "My daughter said what we're doing is admirable," Mrs. Chung recalls. "We both cried when our children told us how proud they were." As the Chungs are discovering, the pioneer spirit can accomplish...
...help improve those odds, eBay, Auction Universe and Amazon.com all offer some type of insurance and recommend that people use escrow services. Industry pioneer Onsale.com which conducts only business-to-consumer auctions, guarantees its products...