A corner is the place where two lines meet at an angle, and a concave corner of intersecting walls is generally thought to be the least beneficial position to be in a life-or-death situation. From this notion was born the verb to corner, which is used to mean "to back (another person or animal) into a corner" and usually also carries a connotation of foul play.

A corner.

A metes and bounds deed begins at a corner marked by a monument and follows a line a given direction and distance to another corner marked by another monument following around and defining the boundary lines of a property. Typically, unless otherwise described or noted, a property corner is placed on the centerline dividing two parcels of land but on the extreme limit of any structure or building located on the boundaries of the property.

In square dance, corner refers to the person you are adjacent to who is not your partner. In standard positioning (boy on the left, girl on the right), this would be for men (or gents) the person standing to one's left, and for ladies the person standing to one's right. In square dance one will often change partners and corners during the course of a dance, in which case one can distinguish between the "original corner" and a "situational corner".

In sports such as football (soccer) or boxing, corner may refer to a person or position (cornerman).

In ice hockey, corners are the curvatures in the rink where the long side boards and shorter end boards meet.

A corner is also used in geography, such as the Four Corners Monument in the United States, marking the corner of state boundary lines.

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Allie Moss
Allie Moss on stage at The Saint in Asbury Park, NJ, April 2011
Background information
Origin	New Jersey, U.S.
Genres	Indie, folk, alternative music, pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2005–present
Associated acts	Ingrid Michaelson
Website	http://www.alliemoss.com/

Allie Moss is a New Jersey singer, vocal coach^[1] and guitarist. She released her own EP Passerby in 2009.^[2][3] In 2011, Moss released her debut album "Late Bloomer".^[4] She regularly performs as lead guitarist for singer/songwriter and friend Ingrid Michaelson.^[5] While not performing on Ingrid's 2010 European tour, Allie returned to the fold during the summer of 2010 for a State-side tour.

Allie is probably best known in the UK for her song Corner which has been used for a television commercial for BT Infinity, its broadband internet service.^[6] The single reached number 70 in the UK.^[7]

Her song "Something to Hold Onto" was featured on the TV show, Bones, episode The Feet on the Beach. Her song "Corner" was featured on Pretty Little Liars, episode "It's Alive."

Previous career[link]

Allie gave up a promising career as an office manager in an insurance company, to become the tour manager and guitarist for Ingrid Michaelson.^[8]

Discography[link]

• My Last & Final Demo ( ? )
• Passerby EP (2009)
• Christmas Tidings Holiday EP (2011)
• Late Bloomer (2011)

Extended plays[link]

Passerby EP^[9]

Track listing[link]

Singles[link]

Miscellaneous[link]

The following songs have been officially released, but do not feature on a studio album by Moss.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Allie Moss on Myspace
• Allie Moss on Twitter

Bob Lennon
Outfielder
Born: (1928-09-15)September 15, 1928 Brooklyn, New York
Died: June 14, 2005(2005-06-14) (aged 76) Dix Hills, New York
Batted: Left	Threw: Left
MLB debut
September 9, 1954 for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
May 11, 1957 for the Chicago Cubs
Career statistics
Batting average	.165
Home runs	1
Runs batted in	4
Teams
New York Giants (1954; 1956) Chicago Cubs (1957)
Career highlights and awards
Hit 64 home runs for the 1954 Nashville Vols, the season HR record for the Double-A Southern Association

Robert Albert Lennon (September 15, 1928 – June 14, 2005), nicknamed "Archie," was an American professional baseball player. Although Lennon struggled at the Major League level in three different trials during the mid-1950s, he was a prolific home run hitter in minor league baseball, hitting 278 homers in a 16-year career^[1] and setting the single-season home run record for the Double-A Southern Association when he belted 64 for the 1954 Nashville Vols.

An outfielder, Lennon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and signed with his hometown Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. After three seasons in the low minors, he was acquired by the Dodgers' bitter rivals, the New York Giants, who became the parent club of the Vols in 1952. The Vols played at Sulphur Dell, which was famous for its short right field fence — which was only 262 feet (80 m) from home plate. The park's dimensions favored pull-hitting, left-handed batters like Lennon, and he smashed 24 homers in his first year with Nashville, in 1953. The following season, he adjusted his swing and shattered the Southern Association home run record, clubbing 64 homers in 153 games played, which would stand as the SA's all time record during its 61-year (1901–1961) history. He also knocked home a league-leading 161 runs batted in, won the Triple Crown by posting a .345 batting average, and led the league in runs scored (139) and hits (210).^[2] The breakout season led to Lennon's first MLB trial, as a late-season callup for the pennant-bound 1954 Giants.

Lennon didn't stick with the 1955 Giants, however. He was sent to the Triple-A Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, where he hit 31 home runs and batted .280 with 104 RBI. The following season, he had his longest Major League stint with the 1956 Giants, appearing in 26 games, including 21 in the outfield, but he batted only .182 with one extra base hit, a double. He was then sent to the Chicago Cubs in an off-season trade, where he made his final appearances in MLB during the early weeks of the 1957 season. As a Cub, he hit his only Major League home run, in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field on April 30, 1957.^[3]

He was reacquired by the Dodgers after that season, and played four more seasons of Triple-A baseball, including seasons of 28 and 27 home runs for the Montreal Royals of the International League. Lennon then retired after the 1961 season. As a minor leaguer, he batted .281 in 1,784 games, with 1,699 hits and 1,067 RBI to go with his 278 four-baggers.^[4]

Bob Lennon died at age 76 in Dix Hills, New York.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Corbett, Warren, Bob Lennon, Society for American Baseball Research Biography Project

Richard Gere
Gere in Venice, 2007
Born	Richard Tiffany Gere (1949-08-31) August 31, 1949 (age 62) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1973–present
Notable work(s)	Pretty Woman, Dr. T & the Women, Chicago, Primal Fear, First Knight
Religion	Buddhist
Spouse	Cindy Crawford (1991–1995) Carey Lowell (2002–present)
Children	Son

Richard Tiffany Gere^[1] ( /ˈɡɪər/ GEER; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films including An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast.

Early life[link]

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke.^[1] His paternal great-grandfather had changed the spelling of the surname from "Geer".^[1] Gere's mother, Doris Ann (née Tiffany, born 1924),^[1] was a homemaker, and his father, Homer George Gere (born 1922),^[1] was an insurance agent for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and had originally intended to become a minister.^[2] Gere is their eldest son and second child.^[1] In 1967, he graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music, playing the trumpet.^[2] He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring in philosophy, but did not graduate, leaving after two years.^[2][3]

Career[link]

Gere first worked professionally at the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod in 1971 where he starred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. His first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973.^[2] He began appearing in Hollywood films in the mid 1970s, co-starring in the thriller Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and playing the leading role in director Terrence Malick's well-reviewed 1978 film, Days of Heaven.^[2] In 1980, Gere appeared in the Broadway production of Bent. He became a major star that year with the film American Gigolo, followed by the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman, which grossed almost $130 million in 1982.^[4]

After 1982, Gere's career experienced several box office failures^[5][6] until it strengthened with the release of both Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman in 1990. Gere's status as a leading man solidified and he went on to star in several successful films throughout the 1990s, including Sommersby (1993), Primal Fear (1996), and Runaway Bride (1999) which reunited him with his Pretty Woman co-star Julia Roberts.^[5] Richard also took a leading role in the 1997 action movie The Jackal, playing Declan Mulqueen.

People magazine named Gere the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1999. In 2002, he appeared in three major releases: the horror thriller The Mothman Prophecies, the drama Unfaithful, and the Academy Award-winning film version of Chicago,^[2] for which he won a Golden Globe as "Best Actor – Comedy or Musical". Gere's 2004 ballroom dancing drama Shall We Dance? was also a solid performer that grossed $170 million worldwide^[7] though his next film, 2005's Bee Season, was a commercial failure.^[8]

Gere was Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals' "Man of the Year" for 2006. In 2007, he co-starred with Jesse Eisenberg and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party, a comic thriller in which he played a journalist in Bosnia. The same year he also starred with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Cate Blanchett in Todd Haynes' semi-biographical film about Bob Dylan, I'm Not There.

Gere co-starred with Diane Lane in the romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe, released in 2008. The film was widely panned by critics^[9] (even making #74 on The Times Worst Films of 2008 list),^[10] but grossed over $84 million worldwide.^[11]

In December 2010, Gere was honored for his lifetime achievement from the 34th Cairo International Film Festival.^[12]

In 2012, Gere was the 67th recipient of The George Eastman Award for distinguished contribution to the art of film for his distinguished acting career as well as his global humanitarian leadership.

Personal life and activism[link]

Gere presented with a Khata by the 14th Dalai Lama

Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995. In 2002, he married model and actress Carey Lowell. They have a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, who was born in 2000 and is named after Gere's father.^[2]

Gere was raised by Methodist parents;^[13] his interest in Buddhism began when in his twenties.^[14] Gere first studied Zen Buddhism^[14] under Kyozan Joshu Sasaki.^[14] After having studied Zen for five or six years,^[14] Gere traveled to Nepal in 1978 with the Brazilian painter, Sylvia Martins^[15] where he met many Tibetan monks and lamas.^[15] He then met the 14th Dalai Lama in India^[14] and became a practicing Buddhist of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism^[14] and an active supporter of the Dalai Lama.^[2] Gere visits Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile, regularly.^[16]

Gere is also a persistent advocate for human rights in Tibet; he is a co-founder of the Tibet House, creator of The Gere Foundation, and he is Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Campaign for Tibet. Because he strongly supports the Tibetan Independence Movement, he is permanently banned from entering the People's Republic of China.^[17][18] Gere was banned as an Academy Award presenter in 1993 after he denounced the Chinese government in his capacity as presenter.^[19][20] In September 2007, Gere called for the boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to put pressure on China to make Tibet independent. He starred in Free Tibet-themed Lancia commercial featuring the Lancia Delta.^[21] On June 27, 2011 Richard Gere meditated in Borobudur temple.^[22]

Gere Visits USAID HIV / AIDS "Operation Lighthouse" Project In Mumbai, as part of USAID.

Richard Gere actively supports Survival International, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights and lands of tribal peoples throughout the world.^[15] He contributed some of his writing for the book, We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, released in October 2009.^[23] Richard Gere discusses the persecution and loss of land of the Jummas, as an example of a tragic story that repeats itself in different continents of the world. He calls attention to the crime against their peaceful culture and how it reflects on our own relationship with nature and capacity to survive.^[24] The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organization, Survival International.

Gere campaigns for ecological causes and AIDS awareness. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Healing the Divide, an organization that supports global initiatives to promote peace, justice and understanding.^[25] He helped to establish the AIDS Care Home, a residential facility in India for women and children with AIDS, and also supports campaigns for AIDS awareness and education that country. In 1999, he created the Gere Foundation India Trust to support a variety of humanitarian programs in India.^[26]

On April 15, 2007, Gere appeared at an AIDS awareness rally in Jaipur, India. During a live news conference to promote condom use among truck drivers, he embraced Bollywood superstar Shilpa Shetty, dipped her, and kissed her several times on the cheek.^[27] As a result of that gesture, a local court ordered the arrest of Gere and Shetty, finding them in violation "public obscenity" laws. Gere, who quickly fled the country, has said the controversy was "manufactured by a small hard-line political party." About a month later, a two-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan, described the case as "frivolous" and believed that such complaints (against celebrities) were filed for "cheap publicity" and have brought a bad name to the country. They ruled that "Richard Gere is free to enter the country. This is the end of the matter."^[28]

In June 2008, Gere appeared in a Fiat commercial for the European market, driving a new Lancia Delta from Hollywood to Tibet. The commercial concluded with a tagline of "New Lancia Delta: the power to be different". The commercial was reported in Chinese newspapers, and Fiat apologized to the PRC.^[29] Branding expert John Tantillo argued that Fiat had foreseen the controversy the ad would cause and hoped to benefit from press coverage it would receive, labeling it "adpublitizing".^[30]

Honours and awards[link]

On 17 May 2012 Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded with the "Medal of Gratitude" Mr. Richard Gere with citation: "With gratitude and honor outstanding personality of the world art, great humanist and activist for the protection of human rights, which unmasked and the American public made ​​known, and further, inhuman crimes, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, in 1999, the Serbian military machine against the Albanian civilian population living in its land".^[31]

Political views[link]

Invasion of Iraq[link]

Gere has stated that the decision to go to war in Iraq was one that the American people were not in support of and that the administration at the time “bullied” Americans into the decision. He blamed the situation on a very “poor president”.^[32]

“I'm very sorry about what the U.S. has done in Iraq. This war has been a tragedy for everyone. I hope that the people of Iraq can rebuild their country," Richard Gere said in a press conference, held on the sidelines of the 34th Cairo International Film Festival.^[33]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Richard Gere

• Richard Gere at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Gere at the Internet Broadway Database
• Richard Gere at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Defended India's nuclear tests
• The Gere Foundation
• The Druk White Lotus School (external link) of which Gere is an Honorary Patron.
• Shambhala Sun Interview