Word: samuel
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...Globalization is a big and very wordy topic, but I think that he'll define it [more clearly]," said Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington, director of the academy...
...Harvardfaculty members include Pierce Professor ofTechnology and Public Policy and Professor ofApplied Physics Emeritus Harvey S.D. Brooks,Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, Associate VicePresident James S. Hoyte '65, Ames Professor ofLaw Philip B. Heymann, Professor of Law Daniel J.Meltzer '72, Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson,Weather head University Professor Samuel P.Huntington, Warren Professor of American HistoryErnest R. May '64, Vice President for FinanceElizabeth C. Huidekopper, and former Dean of theCollege Fred L. Jewett...
Danny Roman, a hostage negotiator for the Chicago police (Samuel L. Jackson), is falsely accused of corruption and murder. He becomes a hostage taker, hoping to put pressure on his bosses to clear his name. He'll talk only with his one equal in this dangerous line of work, Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Two strong actors in a strong situation: a recipe for a taut, tense, smart movie. And for a while The Negotiator is just that, with a genuinely puzzling mystery built in (if Roman isn't the killer, who is?). But Hollywood doesn't trust talk, particularly...
Weston is not the first person involved in a murderous incident who had earlier found his way into the Service's files. Samuel Byck first caught agents' attention after making a threat against President Nixon's life in 1972. In 1974 Byck killed a policeman, an airline pilot, then himself in a failed effort to hijack a DC-9 that he planned to crash into the White House. In 1975 agents evaluated Sarah Jane Moore and decided she was not dangerous. Then she fired a gun at President Ford. "Washington is kind of a mecca for nuts," says a federal...
...captain named William Lewis Herndon. The kid, who is fizzing with light-out-for-the- territory restlessness, quits his job and hops a steamer for New Orleans, hellbent to board the next boat for the Amazon's mouth. But no boats are headed there, then or later, so young Samuel Clemens is stuck with writing about the Mississippi. There is only the most tenuous and delightful of connections with another kid, in Defiance, Ohio, a century later. This fellow, named Tommy Thompson, is an inspired, perhaps even crazed, tinkerer. He conceives that used frying oil could power engines and rigs...