Word: presleys
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...ELVIS PRESLEY Graceland...
...long, life-saving medical tools that are the fruits of university-led discovery have been denied to poor people in poor countries,” said Paul Farmer, Harvard’s Presley professor of medical anthropology and one of the signatories, in a press release. “If our universities really are to be institutions for the public good, this must change...
...million Amount earned by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain last year, making him the world's highest-paid dead celebrity according to Forbes magazine 5 Number of years Elvis Presley- No. 2 in this year's list with $42 million-held the top spot...
...evening that combined weighty issues and humor, Farmer, the Presley professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, answered questions on issues from Haiti to Rwanda, and from the importance of civil activism in the U.S. to the process of building a public health system in Malawi...
...grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley had been among the Americans. Vysotsky's funeral grew into the first mass people's demonstration in Moscow, and so scared the authorities that his Taganka Theater was not allowed to stage a memorial performance to pay him homage...