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...Commencement ceremony, Samuel Adams introduced an idea that would become the cornerstone of the American Revolution. According to Adams, defying the law was acceptable when the law itself became corrupt...
...Former Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner says Card's ability to work with people on both the local and national level made him an attractive candidate...
...Broadway, French dramatists were all the rage: the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Samuel Beckett had good runs, as did the musicals "La Plume de ma tante" and "Irma la douce"; the young Hepburn entranced New York audiences as Colette's Gigi and Jean Anouilh's Ondine. Novels from Germany, Italy, Japan - pretty much any nation the Allies had conquered - were must reading for the intelligentsia. Jean-Paul Sartre was so famous he was parodied in Hepburn's Paris frolic "Funny Face...
...Samuel T. Moulton, Jacqueline A. Newmyer and Zuzanna M. Olszewska of Lowell House; Alison F. Egan, Maggie Y. Loo, Kris K. Manjapra, Steven E. Stryer and Paola Y. Tartakoff of Mather House...
...Faced with postwar treason charges and possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well as in Japan (Kurosawa's Scandal). Later she was elected to several terms as a Liberal Democrat to Japan's parliament. Pretty dramatic, eh? No wonder her life story inspired a Tokyo musical. (So did Hayakawa...