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• milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's...

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• Vassar College

  - 2006-02-09

  Dr. Catharine B. "Cappy" Hill has been named president of Vassar College effective July 1. She is currently provost and the John J. Gibson Professor of Economics at Williams College. Hill received a bachelor's and master's from Brasenose College at Oxford University and a doctorate from Yale University.

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• Book of the Year prize.(Frontline)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-03-01

  For an author's first or second book in English, published October 2003-September 2004. Judges: Jeremy Black University of Exeter, Julian Jackson (Queen Mary, London), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, London). JOINT WINNERS ...

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• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2005-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Government, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Robert Penn Warren

  - 2005-01-01

  Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American man of letters, was dedicated to art as a way of exploring the meaning of contemporary existence. Writer and poet Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky on April 24, 1905. He twice received the Pulitzer Prize: one for fiction...

  Tags: CAREER, fiction, University of Oxford, Vanderbilt University, Yale University

• Brown, Judith M. Nehru: A Political Life.(Book Review)

  - 2004-03-22

  Brown, Judith M. Nehru: A Political Life New Haven: Yale University Press 407 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-09279-2 Publication Date: November 2003 Jawaharal Nehru has been the subject of many biographes. Some are adulatory, others obsequious, one prurient, and a few excellent. Judith ...

  Tags: Strategy, University of Oxford, Yale University

• Summer and investing researchers.

  - 2003-08-01

  Many visiting MBL investigators use marine organisms as models for studying basic biological processes. Research using squids, sea urchins, horseshoe crabs, dogfish, clams, toadfish, and sea slugs, for example, has increase our fundamental understanding of a broad range of diseases and medical conditions including cancer, diabetes,...

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• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2003-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Robert Penn Warren

  - 2003-01-01

  Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American man of letters, was dedicated to art as a way of exploring the meaning of contemporary existence. Writer and poet Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky on April 24, 1905. He twice received the Pulitzer Prize: one for fiction...

  Tags: CAREER, fiction, University of Oxford, Vanderbilt University, Yale University

• The Alliance for Lifelong Learning, a nonprofit distance-education company supported by Stanford University

  - 2002-09-01

  The Alliance for Lifelong Learning, a nonprofit distance-education company supported by Stanford University, the University of Oxford and Yale University was originally created for use of alumni only. Now, the group is going public. The company will be know as AllLearn, and will be targeting lifelong learners. Source: Chronicle...

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