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...Richards was an unknown director in 1959 when he staged the first Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun. An inspiring drama teacher and cultivator of young talent, he championed such young playwrights as Wendy Wasserstein, David Henry Hwang and, most famously, August Wilson, with whom he collaborated for 15 years. Richards won a Tony award for directing Wilson's Fences in 1987 and received a National Medal of Arts...
...know if they are right. What I do know is that Presidents in wartime assert that their constitutional responsibility for national security trumps any issue of civil liberties. Often that has meant trampling on them. From John Adams' Sedition Act to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to Woodrow Wilson's draconian Espionage Act to F.D.R.'s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, Presidents have constitutionally overreached. Last week's Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case suggested that Bush had too--although his actions hardly compare with the examples above...
...Wilson received her master of science degree from the University of Texas and was selected as one of 35 Americans to join NASA’s class of 1996. At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, Wilson has worked in Mission Control as a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for orbiting space crews. In 2003, she served as lead CAPCOM for the ill-fated Columbia mission...
...Wilson was initially assigned to fly for the first time in 2004 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor on flight STS-120, a mission that was postponed after the Columbia tragedy to at least 2007. Wilson was bumped up to STS-121 when the mission was added to the flight schedule, according to NASA reports...
...improvements that we gained from our work in space, all of those improvements come back to improve life here on Earth,” Wilson said in the NASA interview. “I think there are great benefits to the work that we’re doing, and it’s just very worthwhile and worth the risk...