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...VICTOR FUNG Brainy, well-traveled, well-spoken and well-liked, Fung, 57, seems eminently qualified to rescue Hong Kong's sick economy. He was once an investment banker and venture capitalist, used to head the Trade Development Council, is current chairman of the Airport Authority, and also runs his family firm, the successful blue-chip trading company Li & Fung...
...Victor D. Ban ’04, a history concentrator, had planned to use grant money from the Harvard-Yenching Student Fellowship Program to study in Beijing his senior year. But the SARS epidemic became an obstacle to his fall plans...
This demographic picture often shocks those new to the nudist world. Four years ago, Florida state senator Victor Crist, a Republican, was redistricted into an area that includes Lake Como. At first, he says, he was apprehensive about having so many naked constituents. "So I went out there for myself. I think the most surprising point was that the majority of these people are just regular people ... I don't promote this lifestyle, but some people that are active nudists are individuals you would never expect--some of our most prominent lawyers, doctors, judges, policemen ..." His list continues for some...
Cohen, who was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, “came to Harvard at a critical time…when the natural science courses wanted to use a case study approach which intimately involved the history of science,” said Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich...
Later in the film, Peck embodies a kind of pacifist resistance. The white woman's racist father sees Peck with some blacks and spits in his face. Peck, with ferocious dignity, takes out a handkerchief, wipes off the insult and walks away--the victor by not fighting back. Good man to lead; tough act to follow...