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Ira Levin
Levin, Ira 1929–2007(Ira Marvin Levin) OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for SATA sketch: Born August 27, 1929, in New York, NY; died, reportedly of a heart attack, November 12, 2007, in New York, NY. Novelist, playwright, and television writer. Levin was not a prolific author by most standards, but most... Read more |
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Juanita Millender-McDonald
Millender-McDonald, Juanita1938-2007 Congresswoman Even from her beginnings as a teacher, Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald fought for others. She wrote a textbook that exposed female students to non-traditional careers. She was an advocate for educational and women's issues.... Read more |
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Rihanna
Rihanna1988— Singer Rihanna is the rare rhythm and blues (R&B) diva to emerge from the Caribbean world. Though she had made two previous albums, the Barbadian singer debuted a glamorous new look in the spring of 2007 as her latest single, "Umbrella," began to climb the charts. By late summer... Read more |
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David Halberstam
David Halberstam 1934-2007, American journalist and author, b. New York City, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1955). A reporter (1956-60) for newspapers in Mississippi and Tennessee, he chronicled the nascent civil-rights struggle. Moving (1960) to the New York Times, he covered the crisis in the Congo,... Read more |
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Family life
F AMILYL IFE The New Extended Family The "new extended family," the stepfamily, the "recombinant family," the "blended family": by whatever name, such familial configurations became the standard in American society during the 1990s. The government estimated that... Read more |
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Marketplace
Marketplace Since the 1960s, the market for commercial space operations has been limited almost entirely to communications satellites and commercial rocket launchers, with some tentative ventures in the areas of remote sensingand weather observation. Because of the value... Read more |
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Ernst Haefliger
Ernst Haefliger The Swiss tenor Ernst Haefliger (1919-2007) was termed “one of the finest of all lyric tenors” by London's Daily Telegraph. Haefliger never achieved the superstar status of tenors like Luciano Pavarotti or Plácido Domingo. Yet among connoisseurs of classical... Read more |
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust In 2007 American scholar Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) became Harvard University's first woman president. A longtime scholar of American history and a specialist in feminist and American Civil War studies, Faust had spent her entire career in the academic world, and her... Read more |
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Lester Holt
Lester Holt 1959–Broadcast journalist After two decades as a broadcast journalist and news anchor, Lester Holt became an overnight sensation during the disputed 2000 U.S. presidential election. The Florida vote recount was the biggest and most complex story of the MSNBC anchor's career, and he... Read more |
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William Trevor
William Trevor 1928-, Anglo-Irish fiction writer, b. Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, as William Trevor Cox, grad. Trinity College, Dublin (1950). He settled in London in 1960 and five years later moved to Devon. Trevor's novels are usually set in England or Ireland, and he has often written of the troubles... Read more |
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Is the net closing in on a monster? Paedophile named in search for Maddie...
...disappearance. West Yorkshire Police confirmed...Algarve when three-year-old Madeleine...on an eight-year-old in 1975...disappearance in May 2007 was raised by...going back 30 years. Earlier this...disappearance in May 2007. ... |
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The net closes in on a monster; Paedophile named in search for Maddie faces...
...disappearance. West Yorkshire Police confirmed...Algarve when three-year-old Madeleine...on an eight-year-old in 1975...disappearance in May 2007 was raised by...going back 30 years. Earlier this...disappearance in May 2007. ... |
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Quiz of the Day.(News)
...entered? 2. On which river does the Yorkshire town of Halifax stand? 3. Which TV comedy...after marrying in 1947, returning in 2007 to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary...was imprisoned in Bedford jail for 12 years for illegal preaching? 10. Which snooker... |
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MADELEINE QUIZ PAEDO GIVES COPS DNA SAMPLE; Family confident he'll talk.(News)
...the UK. When Madeleine disappeared two years ago, Brit Hewlett was living in Tavira...is also wanted for questioning by West Yorkshire Police in connection with an indecent...family's holiday apartment on May 3, 2007. CAPTION(S): SALIVA Hewlett |
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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MADELEINE SUSPECT IS PAEDO BRIT; SEX BEAST FACES POLICE QUIZ.(News)
...Praia da Luz in Portugal when the three-year-old went missing there in May 2007. Hewlett, 64, has been jailed several...about sex attacks going back nearly 30 years. He also bears a strong resemblance to...police forces in Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, ... |
 "The People (London, England)")
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A Titch of class; EXCLUSIVE GENIAL GARDENER ALAN SWAPS SIDES FOR HIS OWN CHAT...
...enough of the 58-year-old host. As well...best part of two years, Alan is back with...tradition of fellow Yorkshire man Michael Parkinson, as he quizzes the rich and famous...and did it for ten years from 1987. Now, in 2007, ... |
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SO DID HE SNA TCH MADDIE? This British paedophile's likeness to the sketch of...
...through Portugal, 64-year-old Raymond Hewlett...has prompted West Yorkshire police to seek leave...German authorities to quiz him about an unsolved attack on an eight-year-old girl in 1975...over the past two years, the McCann camp...and ... |
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SO DID HE SNA TCH MADDIE? This British paedophile's likeness to the sketch of...
...through Portugal, 64-year-old Raymond Hewlett...has prompted West Yorkshire police to seek leave...German authorities to quiz him about an unsolved attack on an eight-year-old girl in 1975...over the past two years, the McCann camp...and ... |
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QUIZ OF THE YEAR
...s controversial Yorkshire terrier?... Here...10. What did 77-year-old pensioner Jean...off of 77m after a year in which his employer...until it went bust in 2007. What service did...26th pay rise in 10 years? EDUCATION 1. ... |
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trivia Quiz.(Features)
...pres S ent for 15 years? 4. Robert Lindsay...you remember the year he started as Ben...backing dancer 12 years his junior? 7...World Cup glory in 2007? 13. What nationality...League Baseball team? NEWS 16. The amount left...80mph, but what ... |
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