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  2. Killing of Zijie Yan - Wikipedia

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    On August 28, 2023, Zijie Yan, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, was shot and killed on campus. 34-year-old Tailei Qi, one of his graduate students, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The shooting sent the university into lockdown for three hours.

  3. Barbara Herman - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Herman. Barbara Herman (born May 9, 1945) is the Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Philosophy. A well-known interpreter of Kant's ethics, Herman works on moral philosophy, the history of ethics, and social and political philosophy. [1]

  4. A Beautiful Mind (film) - Wikipedia

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    A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe.The film is directed by Ron Howard based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar.

  5. Herman Wouk - Wikipedia

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    Herman Wouk ( / woʊk / WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author and centenarian who wrote historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as ...

  6. List of Hofstra University people - Wikipedia

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    David B. Allison, class of 1987, Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, UAB Steven Feld , class of 1971, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Lawrence C. Levy (born 1950), executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, and journalist

  7. War and Remembrance - Wikipedia

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    War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in October 1978 as the sequel to Wouk's The Winds of War (1971). The Winds of War covers the period 1939 to 1941, and War and Remembrance continues the story of the extended Henry and Jastrow families from 15 December 1941 through 6 August 1945.

  8. Peter Noone - Wikipedia

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    RAK, Philips, Bus Stop (UK) Bell, Philips (US) Website. Official website. Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (born 5 November 1947) [1] is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and actor. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits. In 2019, Noone won the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the Casino ...

  9. William E. Rees - Wikipedia

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    2. William Rees, FRSC (born December 18, 1943), is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC. Rees taught at the University of British Columbia from 1969–70 until his retirement in 2011–12, but has since continued his writing and research.