Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the summer, a sports club I worked for held an essay contest for youth regarding their personal heroes--people who inspire them to do better everyday. The idea to interview Seles came when I noticed that even though she wasn't the subject of the most letters, her fans were undoubtedly the most passionate...
...phase. She's always been this mature, this clear-headed about what she thinks is important in life. How can it be possible? In an era where Anna Kournikova, Martina Hingis, and the Williams sisters constantly embarrass themselves with their overwhelming (and often unwarranted) arrogance, Seles never seemed the subject of negative attention. And she knows...
...Belgian cartoon from the '20s to the '70s. People used to tease him for his haircut -it was sort of smooth but stuck up in the front-but now everyone has that haircut. TinTin is marginal in the U.S., but for some reason he's been a popular subject for French intellectuals. They have many, many books on him--one says he's a drunk, one says he and Captain Haddock, his companion, are lovers, and several claim the author, Herge, was a Nazi." Vaux is currently translating TinTin into a number of endangered languages--Singaporean English, Calypso (an English...
...swallow. It's true that Gingrich was immortalized as a ticking bomb icon, Dan Quayle as a feather and Phil Gramm as a producer of low-budget porn flicks (wait, that last one was fact, not cartoon fiction). Republican presidents, in particular Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, have been subject to cuttingly funny mockery...
Heimert arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate in 1945. He wrote his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln, a subject he returned to last year in an undergraduate seminar...