Word: raoule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott has a favorite story about the meandering path he took to become a mathematician. As a graduate student disillusioned by engineering, he went to the Dean of the Medical School at McGill University in Canada to see if he could become a doctor...
...movie of Hunter S. Thompson's equally chaotic book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Not that Gilliam, known for such movies as Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys, doesn't want to make the film, which stars Depp as Thompson's alter ego, the pharmacological adventurer Raoul Duke. It's just that he's not sure he wants to do it this way. "Tony Grisoni and I wrote the script in eight days, but we didn't like it, so we rewrote in two days," he says. "It's literally gonzo filmmaking. Day by day we don't know...
...high-powered AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships in favor of more reliable but modest OH-58 Kiowas. Shelton's career went into high gear in Haiti in 1994, when he cut short the U.S. invasion, turned back the bombers and transformed himself from warrior to a diplomat, ousting Raoul Cedras and keeping U.S. casualties low. Shelton also enjoys jangling bureaucrats. In 1996, when his Bosnia-bound troops needed new cold-weather gear, he bypassed the Pentagon's procurement officers, contracted for the garb and had it delivered within 25 days--"at one-third the cost that the average American could...
...would never doubt my old buddy. But just to be certain we were dealing with a national phenomenon here and not a Beaverton-centric statistical anomaly, I checked with Raoul Felder, one of New York's better-known divorce lawyers (he handled the off-line antinuptials of Robin Givens as well as those of the ex-missuses of Frank Gifford, David Susskind and Carl Sagan). "I have a number of those things where they meet on the Net and talk dirty and arrange rendezvous," confirms Felder. In fact, he says, his firm has handled "50 or so. Easily...
...into the murder, and possibly bring the case before a jury. Because James Earl Ray confessed to the killing, he was never put on trial, not even when he recanted three days after his arrest and said that a shadowy band of conspirators associated with a man known as Raoul had orchestrated the assassination. While Ray's fingerprints were found on a gun left not far from the scene of the shooting, defense lawyer William Pepper argued that an analysis by sophisticated modern electron microscopes could show that the bullet which killed King does not match ammunition left...