Ted Danson
For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his inimitable, humorous verse he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, and the ups and downs it ... [... more]
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Tasha Alexander
Tasha Alexander is a graduate of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all of her time reading. Following graduation, she played nomad for several years, eventually settling with her ... [... more]
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Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Benchley was the author of several different types of books, as well as plays, movies and magazine articles. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, majoring in English. Shortly after graduation, he married Marjorie ... [... more]
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Ji-li Jiang
Ji-li Jiang was born in Shanghai, China, in 1954. She graduated from Shanghai Teachers' College and Shanghai University and was a science teacher before she came to the United States in 1984. After her graduation from the University of Hawaii, ... [... more]
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Margaret Ball
Margaret Ball lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, two children, three cats, two ferrets, a hedgehog, and a large black dog. She has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. After graduation, she taught ... [... more]
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Brian Hallas
Author Larry Chambers vividly describes the guts and courage it took to pass the though volunteer-only training program in Nha Tarng to be part of the 5th Special Forces Recondo School, the hair-raising graduation mission to scout out, locate, ... [... more]
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Nancy Reagan
Ronald and Nancy Reagan were America's president and first lady from 1981 to 1989. Nancy Reagan was born in New York, was raised in Chicago, and attended Smith College. During the summers before graduation, she worked in summer-stock theater ... [... more]
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Robert Sam Anson
An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17 year old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young white plain clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt. The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry Best ... [... more]
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Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg's United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen. From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in ... [... more]
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Maeve Haran
Catherine Stone, a mother of two, worries about her 18-years old daughter Rachel. Even now - on the verge of her high school graduation - Rachel has fallen in love with a man who does not fit in the family at all. In addition to his passion for ... [... more]
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John Hamamura
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal ... [... more]
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Linda Kenney
Linda B. Kenney is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Rutgers School of Law and Rutgers University. Following graduation from law school, Ms. Kenney served a judicial clerkship with the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division, Judge John F. Lynch. ... [... more]
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