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...live characters. But it has modified the characters to promote social messages tailored towards contemporary Egypt. Set in a working-class suburb of Cairo, it features a similar assortment of human characters as the U.S. version, but they are altered to represent local types--the green grocer, the civil servant, the craftsman and the local schoolteacher...
...Keyes argues that the Constitution does not mandate separation of church and state. He peppers his speeches with words that leave no doubt as to his religious background. His aides introduce him as a "servant of God," and in a recent speech he referred not only to "God Almighty" and the "Creator God," but also to Living God, God's Favor, the hands of God, the authority of God, God's Will, God's Word, God's Voice and--an Alan Keyes original--"God's Smiling Face." He responds with an "amen" after a particularly pious comment from the crowd...
Galbraith has enjoyed a long career as an economist, writer, academic and public servant. Born in Canada in 1908, he taught economics at Harvard from 1934 to 1939 and from 1949 and to 1975, except for time he devoted to government service...
Fact: Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) was a Dutch painter with a sketchy biography and exacting pictures that continue to astonish more than three centuries after his death. Fiction: an illiterate girl named Greit, 17, a servant in the Vermeer household, was the model for the artist's celebrated portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring...
Richardson rose above his modest beginnings as a member of the Harvard Lampoon to become a public servant on a grand scale. A decorated World War II veteran, Richardson eventually held four cabinet posts, more than any other person in history. He was the primary architect of the Law of the Sea, a major international maritime treaty. Richardson later entered the realm of diplomacy as Ambassador to Great Britain...