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Originally published June 8, 2007 at 12:00 AM Page modified June 8, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Gates finally gets his Harvard degree
By The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University's most famous dropout finally got his college degree.
Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft Corp. and became the world's richest man after leaving Harvard in 1975, returned today to accept an honorary degree and speak at the school's 356th commencement.
"I will be changing my job next year," Gates said, referring to his plan to give up his day-to-day role at Microsoft in July 2008. "It will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume."
Gates has been concentrating on philanthropy, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation he began with his wife.
"It's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not," Gates said.
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 3870 days
From 2/12/1938 ( premiere US film "The Lone Ranger" ) To 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 9285 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/5/1991 is 9285 days
From 4/9/1986 ( "Billy, if we get through today alive, you're in big trouble." ) To 4/5/1991 is 1822 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/29/1970 ( premiere US film "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" ) is 1822 days
From 9/15/1938 ( Neville Chamberlain travels to Germany to negotiate with Adolph Hitler ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 18570 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/5/1991 is 9285 days
From 12/2/1969 ( the first public preview flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet aircraft ) To 4/5/1991 is 7794 days
7794 = 3897 + 3897
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) is 3897 days
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From 3/1/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Buffalo Bill, Jr."::series premiere episode "Fight for Geronimo" ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 9285 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/5/1991 is 9285 days
From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 4/5/1991 is 11188 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/25/1981 ( premiere US TV series "Aloha Paradise" ) is 5594 days
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 4/5/1991 is 11188 days
11188 = 5594 + 5594
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/25/1981 ( premiere US TV series "Aloha Paradise" ) is 5594 days
From 3/23/1934 ( premiere US film "Come On, Marines!" ) To 1/24/1985 ( the United States Navy submarine warship USS George Washington SSN 598 formerly SSBN 598 decommissioned from United States Navy active service - my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan serving as General of the Armies of the United States is the final commanding officer of USS George Washington SSN 598 the active fleet platform ) is 18570 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/5/1991 is 9285 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 8/3/1984 ( premiere US film "The Philadelphia Experiment" ) is 9285 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/5/1991 is 9285 days
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
TOWER, John Goodwin, (1925 - 1991)
Senate Years of Service: 1961-1985
Party: Republican
TOWER, John Goodwin, a Senator from Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., September 29, 1925; educated in the public schools of Houston and Beaumont, Tex.; enlisted in the Navy during the Second World War in 1943, saw action in the Pacific, and was discharged with the rank of seaman first class in 1946; graduated from Southwestern University, Georgetown, Tex., 1948, and with a graduate degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., 1953; attended London School of Economics and Political Science; member of the faculty of Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Tex., 1951-1960; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, May 27, 1961, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lyndon B. Johnson for the term ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966, 1972 and 1978 and served from June 15, 1961, to January 3, 1985; did not seek reelection; chairman, Republican Policy Committee (Ninety-third through Ninety-eighth Congresses), Committee on Armed Services (Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses); appointed a member of the United States arms negotiation team in Geneva, Switzerland, by President Ronald Reagan 1985; chairman, President’s Special Review Board (“Tower Commission”) 1987; appointed Secretary of Defense in 1989 by President George Bush but not confirmed; chairman, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 1989; was a resident of Dallas, Tex., until his death in a plane crash near Brunswick, Ga., April 5, 1991; interment in Hillcrest Mausoleum, Dallas, Tex.
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The New York Times
John G. Tower, 65, Longtime Senator From Texas
By MARTIN TOLCHIN, Special to The New York Times
Published: April 6, 1991
In his 24 years in the United States Senate, John G. Tower, the first Republican Senator from Texas since Reconstruction, became one of the most influential and knowledgeable lawmakers on military and national security issues. But when he left Washington in 1989, he departed in virtual humiliation, as the Senate rejected a nominee of a new President for the first time.
Mr. Tower's repudiation by his former colleagues, who rejected him as President Bush's nominee for Secretary of Defense after public allegations of womanizing and heavy drinking, left a bitterness that could not be assuaged. In the normally clubby Senate, Mr. Tower was regarded by some colleagues as a gut fighter who did not suffer fools gladly, and some lawmakers indicated that they were only too pleased to rebuke him.
To have the institution that he had served turn on him was "deeply wounding," the 65-year-old Texan said in an interview last year. It was "something that stays with you and will stay with you for the rest of your life." Four Terms in the Senate
A dapper, diminutive figure who served four terms in the Senate, Mr. Tower was chairman of the Armed Services Committee when he retired in 1984. In the 1970's and early 80's he was a leading advocate of modernizing and expanding the military, and served as a central player in Congress in President Ronald Reagan's efforts to build up the nation's military arsenal.
But the job he craved for years, Secretary of Defense, was unattainable. And the rejection by his former colleagues shadowed the last two years of his life.
After his defeat he compared Capitol Hill unfavorably with Beirut. "They're pretty straightforward wha they do in Beirut," Mr. Tower said. "They hurl a grenade at someone or shoot a machine gun. Up here, it's a little more subtle, but just as ruthless, just as brutal. They kill you in a different way."
This year, in a book he wrote called "Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir" that was published by Little, Brown & Company, Mr. Tower raged against his former colleagues. Senator John Glenn, an Ohio Democrat, is "not the brightest guy in Washington," Mr. Tower wrote, while Senator Jim Exon, a Democrat from Nebraska, "drinks, and drinks heavily." Senator Ernest F. Hollings is "the Senate bully, quick to attack with harsh and personal invective," Mr. Tower said of the South Carolina Democrat.
Mr. Tower reserved his most acid comments for Senator Sam Nunn, the Georgia Democrat who succeeded him as chairman of the Armed Services Committee and whose announcement against Mr. Tower's nomination was widely credited with sealing its defeat. Mr. Tower said the Senator suffered from blind ambition, timidity, inexperience and priggishness.
Only last month, shortly after the end of the Persian Gulf war, Mr. Tower sounded a melancholy note. He spoke of his long involvement with national security and foreign policy issues. "It's a little frustrating not to be involved," he told The Washington Post. "I think I could have made a very good job of it."
Mr. Tower's bitterness over his defeat was not assuaged by his access to Mr. Bush, with whom he occasionally lunched in private and who sought to ease the pain of defeat by naming him chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, where he served until his death today in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Ga. Son of a Minister
John Goodwin Tower was born in Houston on Sept. 29, 1925, the son of a Methodist minister. He joined the Navy in World War II at the age of 17 and served for three years in the Pacific on a landing craft. After the war he graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Tex., and earned a master's degree in political science from Southern Methodist University in Dallas before studying for a year at the London School of Economics.
Mr. Tower taught political science at Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Tex., served as a Sunday school teacher and worked as an insurance salesman and a radio announcer.
He became a Republican in 1948 and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1954. Texas Republicans chose him for a sacrificial run against Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960, and he won 41 percent of the votes. The next year, when Mr. Johnson gave up his Senate seat to become Vice President under John F. Kennedy, Mr. Tower defeated William A. Blakeley, a conservative Democrat who had been appointed to replace Johnson. An Unabashed Conservative
Mr. Tower was an unabashed conservative from the moment he entered national politics. He was the first Senator to announce support for Barry Goldwater's 1964 Presidential campaign. In 1968, Mr. Tower helped to hold the Texas delegation for Richard M. Nixon, and he did not support Mr. Reagan until 1980. In 1988, Mr. Tower helped carry Texas for George Bush.
Mr. Tower sought the job of Secretary of Defense in 1981, but Mr. Reagan named Caspar W. Weinberger. After leaving the Senate in 1985, Mr. Tower served 14 months as the strategic arms negotiator in Geneva. Returning to Washington, he tried again for the Pentagon post in 1987 after Mr. Weinberger retired.
President Reagan turned to Mr. Tower at two critical junctures, as chairman of a panel that investigated the Iran-contra scandals and in lobbying Congress for ratification of a treaty with the Soviet Union banning medium-range nuclear weapons.
Mr. Tower also set up up his consulting company, John Tower & Associates, in Dallas. The company was consultant to some of the nation's largest weapons manufacturers, including LTV, Martin Marietta, Rockwell and Tetron. Mr. Tower did no lobbying, but had called a Congressional aide and former associate, James F. McGovern, who was Under Secretary of the Air Force, to check the progress of a contract for a client. Bitter Divorce in 1987
Twice divorced, Mr. Tower was the subject of rumors about womanizing, raised by his second wife, Lilla Burt Cummings, in a bitter divorce in 1987, and about excessive drinking. Mr. Tower denied his former wife's allegations. Associates said he was a moderate drinker but not a problem drinker. But Mr. Tower was close to his first wife, Lou Bullington, and dedicated his book to her.
It was these allegations that probably cost him the Pentagon post, but Mr. Tower also was criticized as being too close to the military industry.
In retrospect, he felt that he had been the victim of a virtual political mugging by his former colleagues. In an interview with The New York Times last year, Mr. Tower said: "Have I ever drunk to excess? Yes. Am I alcohol-dependent? No. Have I always been a good boy? Of course not. But I've never done anything disqualifying. That's the point."
He is survived by two daughters, Penny Tower Cook and Jeane Tower Cox, both of Dallas. A third daughter, Marian, was killed with him in the plane crash today.
Photo: Senator John G. Tower in March 1989, with his daughters, from the left, Penny Tower Cooke, Marian, who was killed with him in the plane crash yesterday, and Jeane Tower Cox.
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/sep/15/3
theguardian
From the archive: September 15 1938
Premier to see Hitler
The Guardian, Sunday 14 September 2008
[Appeasement can be extremely popular at the time, as is shown by the public reaction on the Guardian's main news page to Chamberlain's step.]
Mr Chamberlain is flying to Berchtesgaden today to see Herr Hitler in the hope of finding a peaceful solution of the crisis.
The announcement made last night was that the Prime Minister had sent to the German Führer and Chancellor the following message; In view of the increasingly critical situation, I propose to come over at once in order to try to find a peaceful solution.
Hitler replied that he would be "very ready". The meeting will be at Berchtesgaden. The Premier will reach Munich about one o'clock and there will be a short halt before the plane goes on to Berchtesgaden.
When the communiqué was issued from 10, Downing Street, last night, the big crowd sensed that something remarkable was afoot.
People immediately swarmed round the telephone kiosks, peering through the windows and endeavouring to hear the message. As the significance of the decision of Mr. Chamberlain dawned on them a crescendo of cheers arose, culminating in shouts of "Good old Chamberlain."
The Canadian Premier on Mr. Chamberlain's "Truly Noble Action"
The coming meeting has created a very favourable impression here. A revival of optimism is noticeable in all quarters. Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, has cabled Mr. Chamberlain expressing the "deep satisfaction" with which he and his Cabinet colleagues learned of [the] proposed meeting. The statement said: I am sure the whole Canadian people will warmly approve this far-seeing and truly noble action on the part of Mr. Chamberlain. Direct personal contact is the most effective means.
Mr. Chamberlain has taken emphatically the right step. The world will hope that tomorrow's conference will create an atmosphere in which at last a solution may speedily be found of the problems which threatened peace.
Berlin Hears the News
The news that Mr Neville Chamberlain is to fly tomorrow to discuss a peaceful solution of the Sudeten German question has called a tremendous sensation here. News of the visit has spread like wildfire. In South Africa, news of Mr. Chamberlain's proposed journey to Germany was broadcast to theatre crowds in the cities and more solitary listeners on the veld. "Like the sunshine breaking through the clouds of a gloomy day" is the general comment.
Mr. de Valera's Praise
Geneva, September 14. In an interview, Mr. De Valera warmly commended Mr. Chamberlain: Another world war would be appalling, and if Mr. Chamberlain succeeds in averting it he will deserve the gratitude of all the peoples of Europe.
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STS-37
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Start of mission
Launch date 5 April 1991, 14:22:45 UTC
Launch site Kennedy LC-39B
End of mission
Landing date 11 April 1991, 13:55:29 UTC
Landing site Edwards Runway 33
STS-37, the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope. The mission also featured two spacewalks, the first since 1985.
Landing
11 April 1991, 06:55:29 PDT, Runway 33, Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Rollout distance: 6,364 feet. Rollout time: 56 seconds. Landing originally scheduled for 10 April 1991, but delayed one day due to weather conditions at Edwards and Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Orbiter returned to KSC 18 April 1991. Landing weight: 86,227 kilograms (190,098 lb).
Due to an incorrect call on winds aloft, Atlantis landed 623 feet short of the runway. This did not present a problem, since the orbiter landed on the dry lake bed of Edwards, and a problem was not obvious to most viewers. Had the landing been attempted at the Kennedy Space Center, the result would have been a touchdown on the paved underrun preceding the runway and would have been much more obvious.
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MASH (1970)
Release Info
USA 25 January 1970 (New York City, New York)
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 28
BROAD DAYLIGHT
"You said you're a doctor?"
"That's right." Bellow nodded.
"Where do you practice?"
"Mainly here now, but I did my residency at Harvard. I've worked at four different places, and taught some."
"So, your job is to get people like me to surrender, isn't it?" Anger, finally, at the obvious.
Bellow shook his head. "No, I think of my job as keeping people alive. I'm a physician, Tim. I am not allowed to kill people or to help others to kill people. I swore an oath on that one a long time ago. You have guns. Other people around that corner have guns. I don't want any of you to get killed. There's been enough of that today, hasn't there? Tim, do you enjoy killing people?"
"Why-no, of course not, who does?"
"Well, some do," Bellow told him, deciding to build up his ego a little. "We call them sociopathic personalities, but you're not one of them. You're a soldier. You fight for something you believe in. So do the people back there." Bellow waved to where the Rainbow people were. "They respect you, and I hope you respect them. Soldiers don't murder people. Criminals do that, and a soldier isn't a criminal." In addition to being true, this was an important thought to communicate to his interlocutor. All the more so because a terrorist was also a romantic, and to be considered a common criminal was psychologically very wounding to them. He'd just built up their self-images in order to steer them away from something he didn't want them to do. They were soldiers, not criminals, and they had to act like soldiers, not criminals.
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Solar System: Mon 1976 Jun 7
Saturn
Distance (AU)
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Saturday, March 10, 2007 posted by H.V.O.M at 8:41 AM
I still remember that day because something really triggered my awareness just before the incident. There was something about the way those two people were going to bracket me as I rode past them and something about how I passed a jogger shortly before them that was approaching them and would be facing us as I passed through the two people bracketing me. Later I consciously understood it was no coincidence because I impacted with that guy too hard. I was amazed afterwards that I didn't crash. I was knocked upright on my bicycle seat, my right hand was knocked off the handlebar, and my foot was knocked out of the pedal my shot was clipped to. And a large bruise formed on my right arm a couple days later. But that was the kicker to it all. He was just too tense when we impacted and that was because he leaned into me. I am certain video of that incident will turn up at some point.
After I veered off to the other side of the trail and dropped my bike into the dirt before I fell over, I felt fortunate that no other bicyclist had been passing my left at that moment. I was routinely passed by other cyclists on that stretch of the trail. I was pretty mad when I stopped and got even more agitated because I turned around and the guy was approaching me.
I found myself feeling less threatened after a few moments though and I told him I was "tired of your shit"
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 10 March 2007 excerpt ends]
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MASH (1970)
Quotes
[last lines]
P.A. Announcer: Attention. Tonight's movie has been "M*A*S*H." Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs -
[chuckles]
P.A. Announcer: operating as bombs and bullets burst around them; snatching laughs and love between amputaions and penicillin.
Colonel Blake: [Watches as a jeep rolls away] Did Hawkeye steal that jeep?
Radar: No, sir. That's the one he came in.
Colonel Blake: Oh, very good. Come along, my dear.
[He and Lt. Leslie leave]
P.A. Announcer: Follow Hawkeye, Trapper, Duke, Dago Red, Painless, Radar, Hot Lips, Dish and Staff Seargeant Vollmer as they put our boys back together again.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:51 PM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Saturday 21 June 2014
