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William Wallace (Gibson) is a legendary scottish hero who defended Scottish independence in the face of English despotism. But when we first meet him, he's just a cute little boy in pigtails. His father is killed in an uprising against England. At his father's funeral, one precocious little girl is already giving him tender looks, setting the stage for the romance to come. William is taken away by his uncle, who emphasizes education before fighting skills, but that only puts off the inevitable. Predictably, William returns to his home years later and is struck to his home grown...
...Auguste, a New Yorker whose mother isChinese and Venezuelan and father is Black,French, English, Spanish and Scottish, says heisn't surprised...
...Gibson Movie: Not the Scottish adventure Braveheart-in that one, Mel talks funny, his hair's too long, and he's literally blue in the face-but Pocahontas, the Disney animated feature for which Gibson supplied the voice of John Smith...
...whether the human race wasone species or many. Some well-known scientistswere convinced that there was, in fact, no unityin the human race. The differences between people(Black, white and Indian being the maindistinctions drawn by scientists at the time) weretoo great to encompass the same species, theytheorized. A Scottish judge and "dabbler inmetaphysics," Lord Kames (1696-1782), had remarkedthat the differences between races could hardly beaccounted for by environment. He held that whites,Blacks, and Indians were inherently differentspecies. Had he not 'known' that God created onlyone single pair of the human species, he mighthave believed that "God created...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Will perform Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Mendelssohn's Symphhony No. 3 "Scottish" and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and more information...