Yale University

Abraham Pierson
Reverend Abraham Pierson (1646 – March 5, 1707) was the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders of the Collegiate School — which later became Yale University. He was born in Southampton, Long Island, where his father, the Rev. Abraham Pierson (Sr.), was the pastor of the Puritan (Congregational) church. At that time, Southampton and much of eastern Long Island were administered as part of the Connecticut Colony.
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Alexandra Robbins
Alexandra Robbins (born in 1976) is a journalist, lecturer, and author. Her books focus on young adults, education, and modern college life and its aspects that are often overlooked or ignored by college administrators . Three of her five books have been New York Times Best Sellers.
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Alison Richard
Dame Alison Fettes Richard, DBE, DL (born 1 March 1948 in Kent, England) was the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. She was the first female Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time. She is also the president of the Cambridge Network.
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Allen Forte
Allen Forte (born December 23, 1926) is a music theorist and musicologist. He was born in Portland, Oregon and fought in the Navy at the close of World War II before moving to the East Coast. He is now Battell Professor of Music, Emeritus at Yale University. Forte is arguably best known for his book [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300021202 The Structure of Atonal Music], in which he extrapolates from the serial theory of Milton Babbitt, proposing a musical "set theory" of pitch-class-set analysis analogous to mathematical set theory with the avowed intention of providing a method for the analysis of non-serial atonal music. The musicologist Richard Taruskin and the composer and music theorist George Perle are among the most vocal critics of this method. Forte was also the editor of the Journal of Music Theory during an important period in its development, from volume 4/2 (1960) through 11/1 (1967). His involvement with the journal, including many biographical details, is addressed in David Carson Berry, "Journal of Music Theory under Allen Forte's Editorship," Journal of Music Theory 50/1 (2006): 7-23.
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Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. She has become well-known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, perhaps most prominently as singer Tina Turner in the motion picture ''What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as her portrayal of Betty Shabazz in the films Malcolm X and Panther, Rosa Parks in the The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in the miniseries and Voletta Wallace in the film Notorious''.
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Anna Harkness
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Benedict Arnold
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Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 – 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill petroleum.
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Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do."
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is the former 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. Each received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.
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Bing Gordon
William "Bing" Gordon is a executive in the video game industry. He served ten years as Chief Creative Officer of video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts (EA) prior to his current partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). He was a founding director of Audible.com and is currently a board member of Amazon, Ngmoco, and Zynga.
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C. Vann Woodward
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Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947) is an US author, teacher, and social critic. A self-described dissident feminist Paglia has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1984. She also writes articles on art, popular culture, feminism, and politics for mainstream newspapers and magazines.
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Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson (1946), professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the current president of the American Association of University Professors and a prominent scholar-activist. He received his Ph.D in English from University of Rochester 1970 and is a 1967 graduate of Antioch College. His scholarship of the 1970s and 80s worked to expand the canon of modern American poetry, and since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of Alan Wald, "With the appearance of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical in 1997, Cary became the national exemplar of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time employees, and campus workers." [http://www.cary-nelson.org/nelson/aboutcarynelson.html] Nelson has also played an important role in promoting cultural studies in the American academy, and in 1981 he founded the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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Charles C. Haight
Charles Coolidge Haight (1841 – February 9, 1917) was an American architect who practiced in New York City. A number of his buildings survive including at Yale University[http://eng.archinform.net/arch/8921.htm] and Trinity College (Hartford, CT). He also designed most of the campus of the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in Chelsea Square, New York. The original brick buildings he designed for Columbia College, at the college's former location on Madison Avenue, no longer survive.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
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Charles Ives
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Cleanth Brooks
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
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David Brion Davis
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David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist and anarchist who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him, and his term there ended in June 2007. Graeber has a history of social and political activism, including his role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City (2002) and membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World. His father, Kenneth Graeber, participated in the Spanish Revolution in Barcelona and fought in the Spanish Civil War and his mother, then Ruth Rubinstein, was part of the original cast of the 1930s labor stage review Pins&Needles;, performed entirely by garment workers. Graeber's father ultimately found work as a plate stripper and Graeber has sometimes suggested his working class upbringing might have played at least as large a role in the problems he later encountered in academic life as his political activities.
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David Lewin
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Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Dick Cavett
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
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Edward S. Harkness
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Eero Saarinen
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Eli Whitney
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Elia Kazan
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Elihu Yale
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Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956) is an American author and journalist who is currently a national affairs correspondent for the New York Times.
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Ernest Lawrence
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Ernesto Zedillo
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Ezra Stiles
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Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author. After a long career as a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International, he has recently announced a move to Editor-At-Large of Time. He is also the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, and a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, trade and American foreign policy.
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Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
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Francis S. Collins
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Frederic Remington
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Frederick W. Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States. The company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson
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Gaddis Smith
George Gaddis Smith is the Larned professor emeritus of history at Yale University and an expert on American foreign relations and maritime history.
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Gary Hart
Gary Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence; November 28, 1936) is an American politician, lawyer, author, professor and commentator. He formerly served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until various news organizations reported that he was having an extramarital affair. Since retiring from the Senate, he has emerged as a consultant on national security, and continues to speak on a wide range of issues, including the environment and homeland security. In 2001, he earned a doctorate in politics from Oxford. In 2006, Hart accepted an endowed professorship at the University of Colorado at Denver. He also serves as Chairman for Council for a Livable World. He has written or co-authored numerous books and articles, including four novels, two under the pen name John Blackthorn.
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Gene Siskel
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Geoffrey Hartman
Geoffrey H. Hartman (born 1929) is a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, but also has written on a wide range of subjects, and cannot be categorized by a single school or method.
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley ( ) (12 March 1685 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory contends that individuals can only know directly sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions such as "matter". The theory also contends that ideas are dependent upon being perceived by minds for their very existence, a belief that became immortalized in the dictum, "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). He published his chief philosophical work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710.
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George H. W. Bush
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George H.W. Bush
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George Pataki
George Elmer Pataki (; born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
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Gifford Pinchot
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Gordon Bunshaft
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Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930), is an historian of political thought in the area of the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and former President of the University of Chicago.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial theories of poetic influence, and for advocating an aesthetic approach to literature against feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, poststructuralist (deconstructive and semiotic) literary criticism. Bloom is a 1985 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Harold Stanley
Harold Stanley (October 2, 1885 – May 14, 1963) was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. He ran Morgan Stanley until 1955.
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Herbert Spencer
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Hiram Bingham III
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Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009.
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Increase Mather
Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials. He was the son of Richard Mather, an influential Puritan minister.
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Irving Fischer
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Isamu Noguchi
was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida () (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in Algeria. He developed the critical technique known as deconstruction, and his work has been associated both with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. His prolific output of more than 40 published books, together with essays and public speaking, has had a significant impact upon the humanities, particularly on literary theory and continental philosophy. His best known assertion with regard to his methodology is that "there is no outside-the-text."
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James Fallows
James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and was President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years, the youngest person ever to hold that job.
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James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 — October 1, 1947) was an American architect best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.
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James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., (born 22 August 1949 in Providence, RI) is an American businessman.
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James R. Angell
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Jeffrey Bewkes
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in addition to his other duties.
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Jeremiah Dummer
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Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, film director and producer.
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John C. Calhoun
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Johns Hopkins
:This article is about the Quaker philanthropist. For the institutions named after him, see Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Jonathan Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. (October 12, 1710 August 17, 1785) (Originally spelled: Jonathan Trumble, was changed for an unknown reason) was one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state. During the American Revolution he was the only colonial governor who supported the American side.
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Josef Albers
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Joseph E. Sheffield
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Joseph Lieberman
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Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician. He devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics as well as physical chemistry. As a mathematician, he invented vector analysis (independently of Oliver Heaviside). Yale University awarded Gibbs the first American Ph.D. in engineering in 1863, and he spent his entire career at Yale. His thesis was entitled: On the Form of the Teeth of Wheels in Spur Gearing.
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José Paciano Laurel
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Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin (born Judith Seitz; September 9, 1944) and became the first woman to hold the position of permanent President of an Ivy League university when she assumed the head of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. She served as that university's seventh President from 1994-2004. In 2005 Rodin was named president of the Rockefeller Foundation. A University of Pennsylvania alumna, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970.
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Karl Carstens
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Kingman Brewster
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Louis Kahn
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Maureen Dowd
Maureen Bridgid Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, she worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star, where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles. Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter and eventually became an Op-Ed writer for the newspaper in 1995. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration.
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Maya Lin
Maya Ying Lin (; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist and architect who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. Her best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected actors of the modern era.
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Michael Cimino
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Michael Dukakis
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Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. A spy for the Continental Army, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British. He is probably best remembered for his purported last words before being hanged: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
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Noah Porter
Noah Porter, Jr. (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892) was an American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College (1871-1886).
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Noah Webster
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of children in the United States how to spell and read, and made elementary education more secular and less religious. In the U.S. his name became synonymous with "dictionary," especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
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Owen Johnson
Owen McMahon Johnson (August 27, 1878 - January 27, 1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover.
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Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and business man who espouses American Christian Right political views.
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Paul de Man
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.
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Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. He was voted sixth in a 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals by Prospect.
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Paul Newman
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Paul Tsongas
Paul Efthemios Tsongas (; February 14, 1941 – January 18, 1997) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Previously, he also served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and held local political office as well.
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Peking University
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Puritan
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1559, as an activist movement within the Church of England. The designation "Puritan" is often incorrectly used, notably based on the assumption that hedonism and puritanism are antonyms: historically, the word was used to characterize the Protestant group as extremists similar to the Cathari of France, and according to Thomas Fuller in his Church History dated back to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and "precisian" with the sense of . T. D. Bozeman therefore uses instead the term precisianist in regard to the historical groups of England and New England.
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Richard Gilder
Richard Gilder, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, heads the brokerage firm Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. that specializes in an aggressive trading strategy of leveraged stocks and shortselling. After working at the brokerage firm of A.G. Becker & Co., Gilder founded the firm now known as Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. in 1968. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee at the New-York Historical Society and serves on the Executive Board of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. He is a trustee of the Morgan Library & Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Central Park Conservancy, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He is Chairman Emeritus of both, the conservative think-tank, the Manhattan Institute and the conservative political action committee, the Club for Growth. In 2005, Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal for their work promoting the study of American history. He has now set up a PhD. program at the American Museum of Natural History in his own name, the Richard Gilder Graduate School at AMNH.
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Richard H. Brodhead
Richard Halleck Brodhead (born 1947) currently serves as the ninth president of Duke University and is a scholar of 19th-century American literature.
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Richard Serra
Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.
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Rick Levin
Richard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is a professor and American economist who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest-tenured Ivy League president.
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Robert M. Yerkes
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Robert Penn Warren
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Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (; born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.
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Samuel Andrew
Samuel Andrew (January 29, 1656 – January 24, 1738) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as the rector of Yale University between 1707 and 1719.
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Samuel F. B. Morse
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Sargent Shriver
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Sinclair Lewis
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Susan Hockfield
Susan Hockfield (born March 24, 1951) is the sixteenth and current president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hockfield's appointment was publicly announced on August 26, 2004, and she formally took office December 6, 2004, succeeding Charles M. Vest. Hockfield's official inauguration celebrations took place during the week of May 2, 2005. Her title is "President and Professor of Neuroscience," and she is the first woman and the first life scientist to hold the title of president of MIT.
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Tansu Çiller
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Thomas Clap
Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp (June 26, 1703 – January 7, 1767), was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest to be called "president" of Yale College (1740-1766).
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Timothy Dwight IV
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Timothy Dwight V
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007; he resigned from all these positions in June 2007.
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Traugott Lawler
Traugott Lawler (born 8 March 1937) is a medievalist scholar, expert on William Langland, and an emeritus professor of English at Yale University, where he served as master of Ezra Stiles College.
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Vietnam War
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Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
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Vincent Scully
Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (born August 21, 1920) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential architectural teacher ever." His lectures at Yale were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and regularly received standing ovations.
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W.K. Wimsatt
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William Harkness
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William Howard Taft
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William K. Lanman
Colonel William Kelsey Lanman Jr., (October 9, 1904 - March 27, 2001) was a notable benefactor of Yale University. He served as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps from 1935 to 1955, and later took up real estate and investment management.
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Yale University

Latin: Universitas Yalensis
Motto	אורים ותמים (Hebrew) (Urim V'Tumim) Lux et veritas (Latin)
Motto in English	Light and truth
Established	1701
Type	Private
Endowment	US$ 19.4 billion (2011)^[1]
President	Richard C. Levin
Academic staff	3,619^[2]
Students	11,593
Undergraduates	5,275
Postgraduates	6,318
Location	New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Campus	Urban, 837 acres (339 ha) including Yale Golf Course
Former names	Collegiate School (1701–1718) Yale College (1718–1887)
Colors	Yale Blue^[3]
Athletics	NCAA Division I (FCS Football) Ivy League
Nickname	Bulldogs, Elis, Yalies^[4]^[5]^[6]
Mascot	Handsome Dan
Affiliations	Ivy League AAU IARU
Website	yale.edu

University rankings (overall)
National
ARWU^[94]	9
Forbes^[95]	14
U.S. News & World Report^[96]	3
Washington Monthly^[97]	23
Global
ARWU^[98]	11
QS^[99]	4
Times^[100]	10

Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan at TAG Heuer Press Conference.
Born	(1965-11-02) 2 November 1965 (age 46) New Delhi, India
Residence	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India^[1]
Other names	King Khan, SRK, King of Bollywood, The Baadshah of Bollywood^[2]
Occupation	Actor, producer, television presenter
Years active	1988—present
Spouse	Gauri Khan (1991—present)
Children	2

Persondata
Name	Khan, Shahrukh
Alternative names	Shah Rukh Khan, SRK
Short description	Film actor
Date of birth	2 November 1965
Place of birth	New Delhi, India
Date of death
Place of death

Tom Hanks
Hanks at President Obama's 2009 inauguration.
Born	Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (1956-07-09) July 9, 1956 (age 55) Concord, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, producer, director, voice over artist, writer, speaker
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Samantha Lewes (m. 1978–1987; divorced) Rita Wilson (m. 1988–present)
Children	Colin, Elizabeth, Chester, Truman

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	He Knows You're Alone	Elliot
1982	Mazes and Monsters	Robbie Wheeling	Made for television
1984	Splash	Allen Bauer
1984	Bachelor Party	Rick Gassko
1985	Man with One Red Shoe, TheThe Man with One Red Shoe	Richard Harlan Drew
1985	Volunteers	Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
1986	Money Pit, TheThe Money Pit	Walter Fielding, Jr.
1986	Nothing in Common	David Basner
1986	Every Time We Say Goodbye	David Bradley
1987	Dragnet	Pep Streebeck
1988	Big	Adult Josh Baskin	American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Saturn Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1988	Punchline	Steven Gold
1989	Turner & Hooch	Detective Scott Turner
1989	BurbsThe 'Burbs	Ray Peterson
1990	Joe Versus the Volcano	Joe Banks
1990	Bonfire of the Vanities, TheThe Bonfire of the Vanities	Sherman McCoy
1992	League of Their Own, AA League of Their Own	Jimmy Dugan
1992	Radio Flyer	Older Mike	(uncredited)
1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Sam Baldwin	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Meg Ryan)
1993	Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett	Academy Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama MTV Movie Award for Best Performance Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin)^[46] Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Denzel Washington)
1994	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	Academy Award for Best Actor American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor
1995	Apollo 13	Jim Lovell	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Actor
1995	Toy Story	Woody	(voice)
1996	That Thing You Do!	Mr. White	(writer and director)
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Captain John H. Miller	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor – Drama Empire Award for Best Actor Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—London Critics Circle Film Award for Best Actor Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1998	You've Got Mail	Joe Fox
1999	Toy Story 2	Woody	(voice)
1999	Green Mile, TheThe Green Mile	Paul Edgecomb	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor – Drama Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2000	Cast Away	Chuck Noland	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Drama Nominated—Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Helen Hunt Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Wilson the Volleyball Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2002	Road to Perdition	Michael Sullivan, Sr.	Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
2002	Catch Me If You Can	FBI Agent Carl Hanratty
2004	Terminal, TheThe Terminal	Viktor Navorski
2004	Ladykillers, TheThe Ladykillers	Professor G.H. Dorr
2004	Elvis Has Left the Building	Mailbox Elvis	(cameo)
2004	Polar Express, TheThe Polar Express	Santa Claus, Express Conductor Hobo, Hero Boy, Father	(executive producer) (voice/motion capture)
2006	Da Vinci Code, TheThe Da Vinci Code	Professor Robert Langdon
2006	Cars	Woody Car	(voice)
2007	Simpsons Movie, TheThe Simpsons Movie	Himself	(voice)
2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Charlie Wilson	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2008	Great Buck Howard, TheThe Great Buck Howard	Mr. Gable
2008	Mamma Mia!		(producer)
2009	Angels & Demons	Professor Robert Langdon
2009	The National Parks: America's Best Idea	Various historical figures	(voice)
2009	Where the Wild Things Are		(producer)
2010	Toy Story 3	Woody	(voice) IGN Movie Award for Favorite Hero^[47] Nominated—IGN Movie Award for Best Ensemble Cast^[48] Nominated—Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie Nominated— Scream Award for Best Fantasy Actor
2011	Larry Crowne	Larry Crowne	(director, producer, writer)
2011	Hawaiian Vacation	Woody	(voice)
2011	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Thomas Schell Jr.
2012	Cloud Atlas	Dr. Henry Goose	filming

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Love Boat, TheThe Love Boat	Rick Martin	TV series, episode: "Friends and Lovers/Sergeant Bull/Miss Mother"
1980–1982	Bosom Buddies	Kip Wilson
1982	Taxi	Gordon
1982	Mazes and Monsters	Robbie Wheeling
1982	Happy Days	Dr. Dwayne Twitchell	TV series, episode: "A Case of Revenge"
1983	Family Ties	Ned	Elyse Keaton's brother
1994	Vault of Horror I	Director
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Narrator (also executive producer/director/writer)	Miniseries
2001	Band of Brothers	Producer, director, writer	Miniseries
2002	Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch, TheThe Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch	Interviewee
2006–2011	Big Love	Executive producer	TV series
2008	John Adams	Executive producer	Miniseries
2010	Pacific, TheThe Pacific	Executive producer/Narrator	Miniseries
2011	Saturday Night Live	Guest cast member
2011	30 Rock	Himself	Guest star in the show's 100th episode

Organization	Year	Award
Hollywood Women's Press Club	1988	Golden Apple Award
Hasty Pudding Theatricals	1995	Man of the Year
American Film Institute	2002	AFI Life Achievement Award^[49]
Hollywood Film Festival	2002	Actor of the Year
BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards	2004	Britannia Award for Excellence in Film
Bambi Awards	2004	Bambi for Film – International
Film Society of Lincoln Center	2009	Gala Tribute

Persondata
Name	Hanks, Tom
Alternative names	Hanks, Thomas Jeffrey
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	July 9, 1956
Place of birth	Concord, California, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death

Bill Clinton

42nd President of the United States
In office January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
Vice President	Al Gore
Preceded by	George H. W. Bush
Succeeded by	George W. Bush
40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas
In office January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992
Lieutenant	Winston Bryant Jim Tucker
Preceded by	Frank White
Succeeded by	Jim Tucker
In office January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981
Lieutenant	Joe Purcell
Preceded by	Joe Purcell as Acting Governor
Succeeded by	Frank White
50th Attorney General of Arkansas
In office January 3, 1977 – January 9, 1979
Governor	David Pryor Joe Purcell (Acting)
Preceded by	Jim Tucker
Succeeded by	Steve Clark
Personal details
Born	William Jefferson Blythe III (1946-08-19) August 19, 1946 (age 65) Hope, Arkansas, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Hillary Rodham (m. 1975-present)
Children	Chelsea (b. 1980)
Alma mater	Georgetown University University College, Oxford Yale Law School
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Baptist
Signature
Website	Clinton Presidential Library

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Persondata
Name	Clinton, Bill
Alternative names	Clinton, William Jefferson (full name)
Short description	42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)
Date of birth	August 19, 1946
Place of birth	Hope, Arkansas
Date of death
Place of death

Persondata
Name	Wilkerson, Isabel
Alternative names
Short description	American journalist
Date of birth
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Place of death

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