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 when he reported on the Second London Conference over the Suez Canal crisis. In London he met with British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who received him at 10 Downing Street. He then flew to Cairo to see for himself if the Egyptians were successfully managing the day-to-day operations of the Suez Canal. In his opinion, they were. Subsequently, he submitted his observations and conclusions in a pamphlet titled "Suez Canal Report." <mask> began 1957 by writing the first of his weekly editorial columns for the Saturday Times-Union, a practice he would continue with few interruptions until 1979. In April, <mask> succeeded Frank Gannett as president and chief executive officer of Gannett.That same month, <mask> became president of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation – owner of 20% of the stock of the Gannett Co., Inc., – and of radio station WHEC and WHEC-TV. <mask> attended the NATO Conference in Paris, France, in December to end the year. In April 1958 <mask> joined the boards of directors of the Brand Names Foundation and the Automobile Club of Rochester. A month later, he succeeded to the chairmanship of the Advisory Board of the American Press Institute, and received a Kiwanis Public Service Award. <mask> also reported from Israel, France, Switzerland, and Italy in October as a member of the Rochester delegation which first paid a goodwill visit to Rochester’s sister city, Rennes, France. The next May, <mask> returned to his adopted home state, and addressed students at the University of Oklahoma on Journalism Day – one of hundreds of speeches he would deliver throughout the remainder of his tenure at Gannett. Recognition for his many contributions to journalism continued as Ursinus College of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, bestowed upon him its Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in June 1959.The new decade  began with <mask>’s election to the presidency of the Rochester Convention and Publicity Bureau, and his receipt of the Lester P. Slade Award for "outstanding journalistic contributions" in January 1960. It continued the following month with his fact-finding visit to Havana, Cuba. The National Conference of Christians and Jews named <mask> National Chairman of the Newspaper Brotherhood Week Committee in January 1961, an honor for which he received a citation in April for "outstanding service to the cause of brotherhood." That same month <mask> hosted the Inter-American Press Association Convention in New York City, and the Civic Committee of the People-to-People Program recognized him with an award for his efforts in establishing the "sister cities" relationship between Rochester and Rennes, France. In June, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed <mask> to a commission observing the 100th anniversary of the Morrill Land-Grant Act; the next year, its members elected <mask> chairman of the Temporary Commission on the Celebration of the Centennial of the Morrill Land-Grant Act. 1962 began with a luncheon invitation to the White House from President John F. Kennedy. In February, the National Conference of Christians and Jews renamed <mask> chairman of the National Brotherhood Week Press Committee for another year.In June, he departed for a 23-day tour of Russia that featured an interview with the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Nikita S. Khrushchev. <mask> completed the trip with a visit to Berlin in the company of his longtime friend, Walker Stone, then editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Upon his return to the United States, <mask> wrote and in October published an account of his trip titled "Russia: 1962". Following its successful publication, <mask> delivered six addresses that year to audiences across the country, including serving as Master of Ceremonies at the Rochester Chamber of Commerce 75th anniversary dinner. Over the course of the following year, <mask> experienced both "triumph and tragedy." In one of his more triumphant moments as a journalist, he was elected president of the Associated Press in January 1963 – an office to which he would be re-elected annually until his resignation as chairman in 1977. <mask> then took up where he left off the year before, and beginning in February spoke to numerous appreciative audiences eager to hear about his trip to the Soviet Union.One of his more remarkable addresses occurred on February 11, 1963, when he presented the Fourteenth Annual William Allen White Memorial Lecture entitled "Inside a Newspaper Group" at the University of Kansas at which time he received its William Allen White Award for journalism merit. <mask> delivered his final speech of 1963 in Boca Raton, Florida, to the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association on November 18. President Kennedy died of his gunshot wounds in Dallas, Texas, four days later, and <mask> was one of those who attended the funeral in St. Matthews Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on November 25. Shortly afterward, <mask> found himself invited once again to a White House luncheon, this time as the guest of President Lyndon B. Johnson. American society changed radically throughout the 1960s, and <mask>’s approach to journalism changed with it. In 1963, he conceived the idea of a series of articles to appear in Gannett newspapers that would explore the positive aspects of racial integration in selected communities. <mask>’s reward was a Pulitzer Special Citation for Gannett – the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a newspaper chain.And although he helped organize Rochester’s local opposition to militant agitator Saul D. Alinsky’s work in the wake of that city’s riots in the summer of 1964, <mask> also visited Rochester’s inner city to speak with black leaders of FIGHT (Freedom, Independence [Integration], God, Honor, Today), a Rochester civil rights organization founded with Alinsky’s support in Rochester. <mask> also received the Sigma Delta Chi Fellowship Award in August, and became the president of that organization’s Rochester chapter in September. <mask> ended the year by becoming a director of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair and with two trips to Mexico City. In October, he attended the Inter-American Press Association Convention there; and two months later he was present for the inauguration of President Gustav Diaz Ordaz. For <mask>, 1965 was a year of varied activity. That January he attended President Johnson’s Inaugural Ball. Ten days later <mask> was in London for the funeral of the Right Honorable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, although he quickly returned to New York upon hearing of the death of his friend and mentor, former general manager of the Associated Press, Kent Cooper.<mask> joined the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester in February; and in April, Syracuse University presented him with its Distinguished Service to Journalism Award. In June, <mask> and the Gannett newspapers received the Mass Media Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and Union College of Schenectady, New York, conferred upon <mask> an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, and made him honorary chancellor of the university. Later that August <mask> was a guest of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at the Capitol. <mask> traveled extensively that fall delivering numerous speeches to professional and civic organizations. In December, he gave the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Lecture at the University of Michigan, and before the year was out found himself the new president of the Lend-a-Hand Society. Gannett’s fortunes continued to rise as <mask> prepared to take the company public. On March 21, 1966, the first issue of TODAY hit newsstands, and its original format became an instant commercial success.The next month, the company purchased the ten weeklies of the Suburban Newspaper Group, headquartered at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The first public offering of Gannett stock occurred on October 25, 1967 after an expansion program that had resulted in the company owning 53 newspapers in 16 states. Less than a year-and-a-half later Gannett landed on the New York Stock Exchange, and shortly thereafter Gannett stock split 3/2. Throughout the years from 1966 to 1969, <mask>’s professional achievements matched his entrepreneurial successes. In May 1966, President Johnson appointed <mask> for a three-year term to the President’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, and rewarded him the following January with another personal invitation to the White House. In October 1966, <mask> attended his second Inter-American Press Association Convention, this time in Lima, Peru. His awards during this period included the Prophet-at-Sight Master Mason Award in 1966; the 1967 Distinguished Service to Journalism Award from the University of Missouri, and election to its journalism school’s Hall of Fame; and the 1968 Distinguished Service to Journalism Award from the Ohio Press Association.<mask> received two Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees in 1968, the first from Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, and the second from Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York. In addition to his other executive responsibilities, four major corporate entities welcomed him to their boards of directors: Bausch & Lomb in 1966; the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York, and the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation in 1968; and the Twentieth-Century Fox Film Corporation in 1969. Also that year, <mask> delivered ten major addresses, and attended Sunday worship services at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon in April, a luncheon for former President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson at the Cape Kennedy Hilton in July, and a White House dinner with other Associated Press executives in October. <mask> became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gannett in May 1970 having passed the title of President and Chief Operating Officer to Allen H. Neuharth whom <mask> had recruited from Knight (subsequently, Knight-Ridder) Newspapers in 1963 as general manager of the Times-Union and Democrat and Chronicle and key executive on special projects. <mask> departed for a month-long trip later that summer to several major European cities including London, Prague, Bucharest, Budapest, Belgrade, Dubrovnik (with side trips to Sarajevo, Sveti Stefan, and Boka Koforsha), Rome, Barcelona, Palma, and Lisbon. And in recognition of <mask>’s coverage of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945, President Nixon named <mask> to the President’s Commission for the Observance of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations. <mask>’s Pacific-area trip in the summer of 1971 netted him visits to Honolulu, Hawaii; Guam, Manila, the Philippines; Tokyo, Japan; Hong Kong, and Seoul, South Korea.The next two years marked the zenith of <mask>’s careers at both Gannett and the Associated Press. In April 1972, <mask> became Chairman of the Associated Press. Later that summer, he took a group of A.P. executives to China for three weeks to visit Canton, Chengchow, Beijing, Yenan, Sian, Nanking, Suchow, and Shanghai. Over the course of their stay they met first with the Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Chou En-lai, and later negotiated an agreement for regular news exchange between the Associated Press and the Chinese news agency, Hsinhua. It marked the first time in twenty-two years that an American news agency had a regular news channel with China. And just as he had after his trip to Russia ten years earlier, <mask> wrote and spoke extensively about his experiences in China.In January 1973, he accompanied his longtime friend, U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, to Paris for the signing of the Indochina peace treaty. Shortly after his return, <mask>harth moved from chief operating officer to chief executive officer. <mask> ended the year honored by New York magazine as one of the ten most influential men in the communications industry and by the Rochester Sales Executive Club as Distinguished Salesman of the Year, as an inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and with another tour of the Pacific. <mask> continued to travel extensively and to accrue numerous honors and awards despite his diminished executive role at Gannett. In 1974, as Chairman of both Gannett and the Associated Press, he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky. <mask> also delivered the commencement address that perfectly reflected his worldview: Not Cynicism but Hope. <mask> returned to China the following year for a second visit,  and upon his return U.S. News and World Report named him one of the five most influential newspaper executives in the United States.In March 1976, Oklahoma State University named its new journalism building the <mask> Journalism and Broadcasting Building. Two months later, <mask> set off on yet another trip to the Pacific, this time traveling to Taiwan (Republic of China), Hong Kong, and Japan. <mask>’s final working years signaled the end of an unmatched career in American journalism. His achievements had been the subject of articles in FINANCE-magazine, Time, Forbes, Wall Street Reports, The Wall Street Transcript, Business Week, and others. When in 1957 he succeeded Frank Gannett as president and chief executive officer of Gannett Co., Inc., the Gannett Group included 19 dailies and broadcasting stations in four states. By 1977, it embraced 77 daily newspapers and broadcast stations in 30 states, Guam, and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as interest in a Canadian newsprint company and Gannett-owned Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. Gannett daily newspaper circulation grew from 775,700 to 3,000,000. Gannett revenues grew from $46,000,000 in 1957 to $557,000,000-plus in 1977.On December 31, 1978, after 31 years with the company, <mask> retired at age 73 as chairman of Gannett Co., Inc., although he continued to serve as a Gannett director and consultant. At that time he could claim membership in the Gridiron Club; the Metropolitan Club and the Burning Tree Club of Washington, D.C.; the Everglades Club of Palm Beach, and the Gulf Stream Club of Del Ray, Florida; the Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia; and the Country Club, Oak Hill and Genesee Valley Club of Rochester, New York. The <mask>s also belonged to the Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, New York. They continued to maintain their principal residence near Rochester, but following <mask>’s retirement began to spend increasing amounts of time at their second home in Palm Beach, Florida. Later years

<mask> remained active throughout the ensuing years despite personal tragedy. A little over a year after his retirement he suffered a stroke at his Palm Beach home in January 1980 that limited movement on the right side of his body, and affected his speech. Calvin Mayne, a friend and colleague of <mask>’s at the Times-Union, later wrote that it was "a great tragedy" that after <mask> retired, he and his wife, Louise, "had so little time to enjoy .. . his retirement." <mask>’s successor as president and chief executive officer at Gannett, Al Neuharth, wrote about it in his autobiography: "The game of golf, which [<mask>] loved so much, now provided him only memories. An unhappy termination of a brilliant career of a many-talented and multifaceted man." Nevertheless, <mask> received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1981 from the School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri Center for Professional Journalism. The <mask>s donated <mask>’s papers to the Edmon Low Library, Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1982; and that same year relocated permanently to Palm Beach, Florida, following the donation of their New York home to the Rochester Area Foundation. In 1986, the Gannett Foundation established a $1 million program in <mask>’s name for reporting regional or local interest stories from the nation’s capital. <mask> returned periodically throughout the 1980s to Oklahoma State University, and marked his final trip to the campus in 1988 with a visit to Old Central where he had worked as a public information officer in the 1930s

On August 19, 1991, <mask> checked into Good Samaritan Hospital, Palm Beach, Florida, stricken with pneumonia.He died of cardiac arrest two days later at the age of 84. A close friend of <mask>’s, former U.S. senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., later spoke at the memorial services held on August 28, 1991 at the Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester. And finally, a former friend and colleague of <mask>’s from the Times-Union delivered the following eulogy: "A tall graceful, and handsome man, <mask> had a manner so unassuming that it is sometimes difficult to understand that from the 1930s to the 1970s, he stood at the very heart of American journalism, quietly influencing it always to be more professional and more responsible. He clearly was one of the great journalists of his time." References

External links
 <mask> Collection at the Oklahoma State University Library
 <mask> Editorials at the Oklahoma State University Library

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American media executives
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title: Wilm Hosenfeld

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<mask> (; 2 May 1895 – 13 August 1952), originally a school teacher, was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War had risen to the rank of Hauptmann (Captain). He helped to hide or rescue several Polish people, including Jews, in Nazi-German occupied Poland, and helped Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944, an act which was portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist. He was taken prisoner by the Red Army and died in Soviet captivity in 1952. In October 2007, <mask> was posthumously honoured by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński with a Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In June 2009, <mask> was posthumously recognized in Yad Vashem (Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust) as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. Early life and World War I

<mask> was born into the family of a pious Roman Catholic schoolmaster living near Fulda. His family life had a Catholic character, and Christian charitable work was emphasized during his education.He was influenced by the Catholic Action and Church-inspired social work, and also by Prussian obedience, by German patriotism, and, during his marriage, by the increasing pacifism of his wife, Annemarie. He was also influenced by the Wandervogel movement (a German youth political group). and its adherents. From 1914, he saw active service in the First World War, and after being severely wounded in 1917, <mask> received the Iron Cross Second Class. World War II

<mask> was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939 and was stationed in Poland from mid-September 1939 until his capture by the Soviet Army on 17 January 1945. His first destination in Poland was Pabianice, where he was involved in the building and running of a POW camp. Next, he was stationed in Węgrów in December 1939, where he remained until his battalion was moved another 30  km away to Jadów at the end of May 1940.He was finally transferred to Warsaw in July 1940, where he spent the rest of the war, for the most part, attached to Wach-Bataillon (guard battalion) 660, part of the Wach-Regiment Warschau (Warsaw Guard Regiment) in which he served as a staff officer and as the battalion sports officer. He was responsible for sports events at the Army Stadium in Warsaw. A member of the Nazi Party since 1935, as time passed <mask> grew disillusioned with the party and its policies, especially as he saw how Poles, and especially Jews, were treated. He and several fellow German Army officers felt sympathy for all peoples of occupied Poland. Ashamed of what some of their countrymen were doing, they offered help to those they could whenever possible. <mask> befriended numerous Poles and even made an effort to learn their language. He also attended Mass, received Holy Communion, and went to confession in Polish churches, even though this was forbidden.His actions on behalf of Poles began as early as autumn 1939, when against regulations he allowed Polish prisoners of war access to their families and even pushed successfully for the early release of at least one. During his time in Warsaw, <mask> used his position to give refuge to people, regardless of their background, including at least one politically persecuted anti-Nazi ethnic German, who were in danger of persecution, even arrest by the Gestapo, sometimes by getting them the papers they needed and jobs at the sports stadium that was under his oversight. <mask> surrendered to the Soviets at Błonie, a small Polish city about 30 km west of Warsaw, with the men of a Wehrmacht company he was leading. Imprisonment and death
He was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor for alleged war crimes, on account of his unit affiliation. In a 1946 letter to his wife in West Germany, <mask> named the Jews whom he had saved and begged her to contact them and ask them to arrange his release. In 1950, the pianist Władysław Szpilman learned the name of the German officer who had offered him assistance in 1944. After much soul searching, Szpilman sought the intercession of a man whom he privately considered "a bastard", Jakub Berman, the head of the Polish secret police.Several days later, Berman paid a visit to Szpilman's home and said that there was nothing he could do. He added, "If your German were still in Poland, then we could get him out. But our comrades in the Soviet Union won't let him go. They say your officer belonged to a detachment involved in spying – so there is nothing we can do about it as Poles, and I am powerless". Szpilman never believed Berman's claims of powerlessness. In an interview with Wolf Biermann, Szpilman described Berman as "all powerful by the grace of Stalin," and lamented, "So I approached the worst rogue of the lot, and it did no good." <mask> died in a Soviet prison camp on 13 August 1952, shortly before 22:00, from a rupture of the thoracic aorta, possibly sustained during torture.Commemoration
In 2002, The Pianist, a film based on Szpilman's memoirs of the same name, portrayed <mask>'s rescue of Władysław Szpilman. <mask> was played by Thomas Kretschmann. In October 2007, <mask> was posthumously honoured by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński with a Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (). Szpilman's son, Andrzej Szpilman, had long called for Yad Vashem to recognize <mask> <mask> as a Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews. Along with him, the Szpilman family and thousands of others asked that <mask> Vashem posthumously recognized <mask> as Righteous Among the Nations. On 19 June 2009, Israeli diplomats presented <mask>'s son, Detlev, with the award, in Berlin.On December 4, 2011, a commemorative plaque in Polish and English was unveiled at 223 Niepodległości Avenue in Warsaw, the place where Hosenfeld discovered Szpilman, in the presence of Hosenfeld's daughter Jorinde. Awards and decorations
 Iron Cross of 1914, 2nd class (1917)
 Honor Cross of World War 1914/1918
 Wound Badge in Black (1918)
 SA-Sports Badge in Bronze
 Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland, October 2007)
 Righteous Among the Nations (25 November 2008)

See also

Oskar Schindler
Karl Plagge
Albert Göring
John Rabe
Raoul Wallenberg
Aristides de Sousa Mendes

References and notes

Sources
Vogel, Thomas, ed. : <mask> <mask>: "Ich versuche jeden zu retten"—Das Leben eines deutschen Offiziers in Briefen und Tagebüchern (<mask> Hosenfeld: "'I try to save each one [I can]'—The life of a German officer in letters and diaries"). Compiled and with commentary by Thomas Vogel, Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt (MGFA: Military History Research Institute). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich, 2004. Szpilman, Władysław. The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945.Picador; 2nd edition, 2002  (ISBN ),  (ISBN ). This book includes a foreword by Andrzej Szpilman, excerpts from <mask>'s diary, and an epilogue in the form of an essay by Wolf Biermann. External links
<mask> <mask>, A Man Of courage
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Comment on Hosenfeld in conjunction with Roman Polanski's filmThe Pianist
Page on <mask> <mask> and The Pianist on the website of <mask>'s grandson
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title: Alex Rowe (soldier)

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Chief Adjutant (French:Adjudant-Chef) <mask> (born 11 November 1966 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British member of the French Foreign Legion, one of the most decorated members of the Legion and the first British legionnaire to be invested into the Légion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit. Born and raised in England, he was unable to join the British Army at age 17 on medical grounds, and instead elected to join the Foreign Legion at age 20. After 23 years service, <mask> reached the second highest level of rank among the corps of non-commissioned officers in the French Army, and had been awarded five citations for acts of bravery in operational theatres around the world, culminating in 2009 with the Légion d'honneur for a second tour of Afghanistan. Early life
<mask> and his twin brother, Mark, were born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 11 November 1966. He was raised in Gloucestershire, living in Stonehouse near Stroud, attending Maidenhill School in Stonehouse. As a teenager he joined the Stroud Army Cadets, and held a long-standing ambition to join the armed forces. Aged 17, <mask> applied with his brother Mark to join the British Army.Mark was successful but <mask>, having already been accepted by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, was rejected on medical grounds, due to an eye condition. He had suffered a detached retina which was operated on when he was 13. Following his rejection by the British Army, <mask> contemplated running away to the French Foreign Legion at age 18, but was persuaded not to by his mother. At age 19 he was also declined by the police force due to his eye condition. For a time before joining the Legion, <mask> ran a pub in Stroud. Military career
In 1987, shortly before his 21st birthday, and this time with his mother's agreement, <mask> travelled to Marseilles and signed up for the Legion. Having just a rudimentary knowledge of the French language, <mask> was required to learn on the job during basic training, during which the speaking of other languages is not permitted under pain of a "clip round the ear".Despite his eye condition, after passing basic training he was then trained as a sniper, becoming a top marksman. <mask> went on to see action in Bosnia, Kosovo, central Africa, the Ivory Coast and Afghanistan. Following service in Chad, <mask> was deployed as part of the United Nations Protection Force keeping open a corridor out of Sarajevo during the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia. <mask> was deployed to the Ivory Coast in 2003. Around that time the region was experiencing the Ivorian Civil War, leading to the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire mission. <mask> was deployed on his first tour to Afghanistan in 2008, as part of the International Security Assistance Force, serving with an Afghan battalion that sustained heavy casualties. In his second tour of Afghanistan in 2009, <mask> was part of a 700 strong Legion force under Colonel Benoît Durieux, based in Surobi, east of the capital Kabul.This force was deployed to exert Afghan authority over the upper Uzbin Valley in eastern Kabul Province, in order to cut an insurgent route from Pakistan, and together with French regulars and American troops, also in the Tagab Valley in neighbouring Kapisa Province, in order to allow completion a strategic ring road linking eastern and northern Afghanistan. In December 2009 <mask> was profiled by the media as part of the Legion's role in ISAF, named as just <mask> due to the legion's restrictions on reporting legionnaire's last names, either real or assumed, in the cases where recruits join under new identities. In addition to <mask>, this Legion force in Afghanistan also included a handful of Britons, including other profiled Chief Adjutants such as a 43-year-old Scottish legionnaire and a 52-year-old legionnaire from Liverpool. Having served two tours in Afghanistan, <mask> returned to France in early 2010 to be based at the Legion training camp near Toulouse in the south of France, instructing younger recruits. Citations
After twenty three years of exemplary service in the Legion, in 2010 <mask> was to be awarded a fifth citation for bravery - investiture as a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Légion d'honneur (the National Order of the Legion of Honour), for acts of valour during his second tour in Afghanistan. The news of the award was announced in January 2010, while <mask> was to receive his Légion d’Honneur badge in a ceremony in Paris during the Bastille Day celebrations on 14 July 2010. <mask>'s first citation came for service in Sarajevo, when he guided a mother and daughter to safety away from sniper fire being trained onto a city plaza.His third citation came for a sniper kill. <mask>'s fifth citation came for his actions during an airborne insertion and night-time raid on a small village undertaken alongside American forces. After their extraction was delayed, the force was ambushed from all sides at 1am, and <mask> coordinated a helicopter counter-attack and medical evacuation of wounded Americans, with the first evacuation hit by rocket-propelled grenade fire. This action was close to the scene of the Uzbin Valley ambush of August 2008 in which the regular French forces suffered their worst death toll in the Afghan conflict. According to The Times, this fifth citation made <mask> one of the most highly decorated of all legionnaires, and the Légion d’Honneur is an honour unheard of for an English legionnaire. According to <mask>, "Most guys will have one citation, some will have two. Three is very rare."Playing down his military record, he simply states of his service that "I haven't done anything more than my job." Personal life
<mask>'s mother Jennifer is from Rodborough near Stroud and works for the police in Gloucestershire Constabulary, and is a trade union official for UNISON; in the 2009 Birthday Honours she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the Police and to the Voluntary Sector." His father is a retired sales rep. In addition to his twin Mark, <mask> also has a younger brother Jeremy, a merchant banker in the City of London. Much of <mask>'s career in the Legion has been spent in Francophone Africa. As of 2010, his last visit to England had been in 2003 with the Legion, for training on Salisbury Plain. <mask> now lives near Nîmes in the south of France, with his French wife Elyzabeth, originating from Tahiti, with whom he has a teenage son and a stepdaughter.He plans to retire to Tahiti when he eventually leaves the Legion, having already completed the minimum term of service. Despite being eligible after just three years service, <mask> has not taken up the option open of applying for French citizenship, stating that he feels neither "one hundred per cent British" nor French. As a result of his Newcastle origins and long service in the Legion, <mask> is said to possess an accent "veering between Geordie and French". Initially, <mask> advanced through the lower ranks of the Legion at the same rate as his twin brother Mark, who had elected to join the Royal Engineers. He reached the senior non-commissioned officer rank of Chief Adjutant, equivalent to the British rank of Company Sergeant Major, whereas his brother has made the transition to the commissioned rank of Captain. <mask> speculated that had he been allowed to join the British Army, he would have been "at least a Colonel in the Parachute Regiment by now – if I was still alive, of course". Having always been angry at not being able to join the British Army, <mask> said of the situation that "You can't get into the British army because you've got a f***ed eye, and you become a sniper in the French Foreign Legion.Something's gone wrong there." Although he said he had subsequently had a good life in the Legion, and had even been paid more while on holiday than his brother had while fighting in the Gulf War. See also
 List of Foreign Legionnaires
 List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name

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<mask> (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer who has won 21 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship: the 1997 PGA Championship. He won the Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. He was in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for over 450 weeks, reaching a high ranking of 2nd. He captained the U.S. Ryder Cup teams in 2012 and 2016. <mask> was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. Background and family
<mask> was born on April 13, 1964 in Charlotte, North Carolina to <mask>. and his wife, Helen, a day after his father competed in the final round at the 1964 Masters Tournament. His father, who was a former pro and nationally recognized golf instructor, introduced him to the game.His mother is also an avid low-handicap golfer. His father was killed in a 1988 plane crash. <mask> attended high school in Brunswick, Georgia, and graduated from its Glynn Academy in 1982. He played college golf at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a three-time All-American and all-Atlantic Coast Conference. He won six titles during his collegiate career, including the ACC tournament championship as a sophomore in 1984. <mask> is a Republican, and has donated money to Johnny Isakson and George W Bush. <mask> turned professional in 1985, earning his PGA Tour card in the autumn of 1985, on his first attempt.He quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, winning his first tour event in 1987 at the MCI Heritage Golf Classic, at Harbour Town Golf Links. He would later win this event four more times, setting a record for the most victories in the tournament. <mask> and Fred Couples won four straight times from 1992 to 1995 for the United States in the World Cup of Golf, a record for this event. <mask> was a consistent contender and winner on the PGA Tour in the 1990s and early 2000s, but the most memorable win came at the 1997 PGA Championship, his only major championship victory. It was played at Winged Foot Golf Club near New York City, and just four players in the field finished under-par for the week. <mask>'s winning score was 11-under-par, five strokes better than runner-up Justin Leonard. When <mask> sank his birdie putt on the final hole of the championship, it was under the arc of a rainbow, which appeared as he walked up to the 18th green.In the telecast, CBS Sports announcer Jim Nantz made the connection between the rainbow and <mask>'s late father, <mask> Jr., who was a well-known and beloved figure in the golf world. This victory was the last major championship win achieved with a wooden-headed driver. In 1994, <mask> founded Love Golf Design, a golf course architecture company with his younger brother and caddie, <mask>. The company has been responsible for the design of several courses throughout the southeast United States. Completed in 1997, Ocean Creek is his first signature course and is located on Fripp Island, South Carolina. <mask> also designed the Dunes course at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which is ranked among Golf Magazines Top 100 courses in the world. In 1997, <mask> published the book Every Shot I Take, which honors his father's lessons on life and golf, and it received the United States Golf Association's International Book Award.That year, he developed and designed his own golf course in Harnett County, North Carolina. The course, Anderson Creek Club, won an award for "Best New Course in North Carolina" in 2001. He and his wife Robin have two children. On November 9, 2008, <mask> earned his 20th PGA Tour win at the Children's Miracle Network Classic, which gave him a lifetime exemption on Tour. In 2012, <mask> captained the U.S. Team that lost the 2012 Ryder Cup. <mask>’s victory in the 2015 Wyndham Championship—at age 51—made him the third-oldest winner in PGA Tour history, trailing only Sam Snead and Art Wall Jr.The win made <mask> the oldest PGA Tour winner in the PGA Tour Champions era (since 1980). It also brought <mask> into select company in another PGA Tour distinction: he became only the third player to win on the tour in four different decades, joining Snead and Raymond Floyd. After failing to qualify for the FedEx Cup in 2014, <mask> made his Champions Tour debut at the Pacific Links Hawaii Championship. <mask> is the tournament host of the RSM Classic. In 2015, son <mask> IV (better known as Dru) earned a sponsor exemption into the event, but  missed the cut. In 2016, <mask> captained the winning U.S. Team at the 2016 Ryder Cup.After <mask> failed to qualify for the 2017 U.S. Open, he caddied for Dru, who made his professional debut. On December 16, 2018, <mask> and his son Dru won the Father/Son Challenge at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida. For the 2020 PGA Tour season, <mask> joined CBS as a full-time analyst. In July 2020, <mask> announced that he was leaving his role with CBS in order to "focus on my family, play a few tournaments, and bring some stability back in a difficult year." On March 27, 2020, <mask>'s home in St. Simons Island, Georgia, was destroyed in a fire. <mask> and his wife escaped without injury. Legacy
 Has a portion of Interstate 95 named after him.In 1998, the segment of I-95 which extends in Georgia from the McIntosh County line to Highway 341 at exit 7A and B was designated the "Davis Love III Highway." <mask> hit the second-longest drive ever officially recorded in competition play at the Mercedes Championships in 2004. His  drive was still  short of Mike Austin's record. He also has a restaurant named after him in his hometown of Sea Island, Georgia, called the <mask> Love Grill. Amateur wins (2)
1984 North and South Amateur, Middle Atlantic Amateur

Professional wins (37)
PGA Tour wins (21)PGA Tour playoff record (2–7)Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

Other wins (15)Other playoff record (1–3)Major championships
Wins (1)

Results timeline
Results not in chronological order in 2020. CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

Most consecutive cuts made – 8 (2001 U.S. Open – 2003 Masters)
Longest streak of top-10s – 3 (1998 Open Championship – 1999 Masters)

The Players Championship
Wins (2)

Results timeline

CUT = missed the halfway cut
DQ = disqualified
"T" indicates a tie for a place. Results in World Golf Championships
Results not in chronological order before 2015.1Cancelled due to 9/11

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
WD = Withdrew
NT = No tournament
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009. PGA Tour career summary

*As of the 2021 season. U.S. national team appearancesAmateurWalker Cup: 1985 (winners)Professional'
Dunhill Cup: 1992
World Cup: 1992 (winners), 1993 (winners), 1994 (winners), 1995 (winners), 1997
Ryder Cup: 1993 (winners), 1995, 1997, 1999 (winners), 2002, 2004, 2012 (non-playing captain), 2016 (non-playing captain, winners)
Presidents Cup: 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners), 1998, 2000 (winners), 2003 (tie), 2005 (winners), 2022 (non-playing captain)
Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (representing PGA Tour): 1996 (winners), 1998, 2012 (winners)

See also
1985 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
List of men's major championships winning golfers
List of golfers with most wins in one PGA Tour event

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title: George C. Howard

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<mask><mask> (1818–1887) was a Nova Scotian-born American actor and showman who is credited with staging the first theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Early life
<mask> was born on January 6, 1818, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of John Henry and Mary Ann (née Nevon) <mask>. <mask>’s father was originally a carpenter who later operated a successful tallow and ship chandler business until it was consumed in a devastating fire and his contracts with the British Navy were lost to competitors. <mask>’s first performances were as a choirboy at Catholic services in Halifax and later in amateur theater. He tried his hand at several trades, the last being tailoring, before leaving for Boston in 1836 to pursue an acting career. He made his professional debut in 1838 as <mask> at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and within a few years was playing major roles at the Boston Museum (theatre). He was the first there to play <mask> in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Lady of Lyons; Sir <mask> in Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame; and Romeo and Orlando in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It.In the mid-1840s he formed the company, Howard and Foxes, with the Fox troupe, a family of actors from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and toured throughout the Northeast. <mask> "<mask>" Emily Fox, the talented fifteen-year-old daughter of <mask> and Emily Fox, married <mask> on October 31, 1844. At one time or another, her brothers <mask>. Fox (1), James Augustus Fox and <mask>. Fox would perform with <mask> over the following years. Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1852 <mask> hired <mask>'s cousin <mask>. Aiken to adapt for the stage Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The play debuted on September 27, 1852, at Peale’s Museum in Troy, New York, with a cast largely made up of family and friends of <mask>'s that included his four-year-old daughter, <mask>. The play was a great success and ran for over three months, an achievement for a small town theater. Aiken’s original script, which ran over three hours, ended with little Eva's death, Later that year he wrote a sequel that brought the story to a proper end which he soon merged with the original script to create the six-act play known today.The following year the play opened at Alexander H. Purdy’s National Theatre in the Bowery neighborhood of lower Manhattan and was well received. The play was directed by <mask>. Fox, who had become a local favorite there, and retained many of the original players from the first production. Uncle Tom’s Cabin would remain in continuous production somewhere in the United States well into the 1930s, an incredible accomplishment for any time. Later years
In 1857 <mask><mask> became the manager of the Troy Adelphi Theatre, but returned to the road after box office receipts did not meet expectations. In 1861 <mask> filled in as manager of Fox's New Bowery Theatre, while his brother-in-law <mask>. Fox served in the Civil War. After the war <mask> would return to the stage only on occasion. Death
<mask> <mask> died at his residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 18, 1887.He was survived by his wife <mask>. The <mask>s had eight children, of which only three survived their parents. Adelia <mask> was born on May 10, 1846, and died five months later on  October 24. <mask> <mask>. was born on November 9, 1849, and died February 1, 1850. John Green <mask> was born on March 18, 1851, and died at age 12 on December 5, 1863. James Fox <mask> was born on November 10, 1853 and died on April 7, 1855. <mask> <mask> was born on May 10, 1856 and died at sea on June 12, 1884, while on a cruise to Europe.<mask> <mask> was born on May 10, 1829, at Boston, Massachusetts. She continued to play Topsy in various productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin until her husband’s death in 1887. <mask> died in Cambridge on October 8, 1908. <mask> <mask> was born on February 1, 1848, at Providence, Rhodes Island and after a successful career as a child actor left the stage and married on June 23, 1871, Edmund J. MacDonald, a native of Scotland who worked for MacDonald and Sons as a bookbinder. She died on August 8, 1941, in Bourne, Massachusetts. Arthur Lincoln <mask> was born on October 20, 1865, at New York City and later became a prominent Boston lawyer after graduating from Harvard. He married Emily Stewart in 1895 and became the father of a daughter and two sons.Arthur died in 1929 on January 19 at Cambridge. Walter Scott <mask> was born on June 26, 1868, at New York City and later became an actor with Joseph Jefferson’s company before going on to play in a number of Shakespearean productions. He was a member of several New York stock companies and at one time he served as actress Ada Rehan’s manager. In 1897 Walter married actress Minnie Parker and soon became the father of a son, <mask><mask>. In later life Walter passed up an opportunity to direct in Hollywood and returned to Massachusetts where wrote about current events and published children’s books and works of poetry. In the mid-1920s Walter became involved in local government and served for a number of years as chairman of selectman for the town of Bourne, Massachusetts. Walter Scott <mask> died there on November 12, 1954 at the age of 86.<mask><mask> sold the family's papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 1963. Among the papers were the original manuscripts for stage production of Uncle Tom's Cabin by <mask>, playbills, scrapbooks, photographs, memoirs, and some of the <mask> family script library. Sources

External links
 <mask>. <mask> and Family Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

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title: Wang Ruowang

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<mask> (; February 4, 1918 – December 19, 2001) was a Chinese author and dissident who was imprisoned various times for political reasons by both the Kuomintang and the Communist government of China for advocating reform and liberalization. His name at birth was "Shouhua" (), but he was most commonly known by his pen name, "Ruowang". He was a prolific essayist and literary critic. <mask> was a member of the Chinese Communist Party from 1937 to 1957, when he was expelled for holding "rightist views". He rejoined the Communist Party 1979, but in 1987 he was again expelled by Deng Xiaoping for promoting "bourgeois liberalization". After his death in exile in New York City, he was widely eulogized as one of the Chinese government's most significant social and political critics. Biography

Early life
In 1932, when <mask> was fifteen years old, he was expelled from school for taking part in a student demonstration.He joined the Communist Youth League later that year. In 1933 he moved to Shanghai, where he began work at a pharmaceutical factory while operating as a low-level Communist agent. While working at this factory he founded a publication, Toilet Literature, a newspaper that was distributed by being pasted on the walls of the factory workers' bathroom area. After writing an article in which he mocked Chiang Kai-shek for allowing the Japanese to seize Manchuria, he was arrested in May 1934, and sentenced to ten years in prison. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Chiang Kai-shek declared a "united front" with the Communists against the Japanese, and <mask> was released after serving only three and a half years of his sentence as part of a general amnesty. Some of the Communists imprisoned with <mask> became successful officials after the Communist victory in 1949: one became the governor of Guangdong, and another became the deputy governor of Anhui. After <mask>'s release, in 1937, he joined the Communist Party of China and traveled to the Communist base in Yan'an.After arriving, <mask> wrote one of the first biographical articles on Mao Zedong, and edited cultural journals intended to be circulated among peasants. He joined the Communist Party in order to "fight evil, autocracy and oppression", but was persecuted during the 1942 Yan'an Rectification Campaign for writing for a controversial wall newspaper, Light Cavalry, which was condemned by Party leaders for discussing dark and unsavory aspects of life in Yan'an. One of his friends was killed during the purge. After the purge, <mask> was forced by Mao's lieutenant, Kang Sheng, to leave Yan'an and travel to Japanese-occupied Shandong as a low-level Communist agent, where he survived only "through the kindness of peasants". After entering Japanese-occupied China, <mask> was briefly imprisoned by the Japanese, but was released. Early conflict with the Communist Party
After the Japanese surrendered, in 1945, <mask> was pardoned by Kang. He returned to Shanghai, where he worked at the East China Bureau Propaganda Department.He became a co-editor of a prominent local newspaper, and gained a reputation as an essayist and literary critic. In 1956, after Mao encouraged writers to criticize the Communist Party in the "Hundred Flowers Campaign", <mask> published ten articles critical of the Communist Party. These articles made him an early victim of the subsequent "Anti-Rightist Campaign", when those who had followed Mao's directions and spoken out were persecuted as "rightists". After being identified as a "rightist", <mask> was expelled from the Party, lost his job, and was forced to work at a forced labour camp in the countryside. His wife, Li Ming, was also persecuted for her association with him. After refusing to condemn him, she also lost her job and suffered a mental breakdown. The Communist Party removed <mask>'s "rightist" label in 1962, but soon after <mask> angered the Party again by publishing a story, "History of a Cauldron", in which he satirized the policies of the Great Leap Forward as cruel, impractical, and ironic.This story led the local leader of the Communist Party, Ke Qingshi, to renew the Party's attacks on <mask> and his family. Before she died, in 1964, <mask>'s wife begged him to protect his family by never writing again. <mask> blamed the Communist Party for her death. After the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, <mask> was persecuted as a "counterrevolutionary". He was imprisoned for four years in the same prison building that the Kuomintang had imprisoned him in during the 1930s, enduring conditions that he later described as "fascist brutality". <mask> remained a political outcast until 1979, following Deng Xiaoping's ascent to power, when <mask> was allowed to rejoin the Communist Party as part of a national programme to rehabilitate those unjustly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. Following his political rehabilitation, he continued to criticize the government and agitated for greater human rights and democratic reforms.Following <mask>'s rehabilitation, he was assigned to work as the deputy director of a Shanghai literary magazine. He resumed his literary career, becoming a member of the councils of both the Shanghai Writers' Association and the Chinese Writers' Association. In 1980 he published an autobiographical novel, Hunger Trilogy, which included a semi-fictional account of his time in both Kuomintang and Communist political prisons. In the book, <mask> recalled how the Communists' political prisons had been much more cruel than Kuomintang political prisons. The book angered many Party officials by asserting that, although Chiang's and Mao's dictatorships used hunger as a weapon against their political opponents, Mao was more systematic and ruthless. Hunger Trilogy is the most well-known of <mask>'s books to be translated into English, and was well-received abroad. Within China, the article of his that gained the most attention was published in 1986, titled "One-Party Dictatorship Can Only Lead to Tyranny".Involvement with student protests
In December 1986, college students demonstrated in over a dozen Chinese cities in order to agitate for greater economic and political freedoms. Deng Xiaoping, after two straight weeks of student demonstrations, came to the conclusion that the student movement was a result of "bourgeois liberalization", and named three Communist Party members to be expelled: Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan, and <mask>wang. Deng personally attacked <mask> for being "wildly presumptuous", and accused him of five "major mistakes", including a belief that Chinese socialism was "feudal or semi-feudal in essence". Because he was the oldest of the three protest leaders, <mask> later gained a reputation as "the grandfather of Chinese dissidents". Of the three, he remained in China the longest. Deng directed then-CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang to expel them from the Party, but Hu refused. Because of his refusal, Hu was dismissed from his position as General Secretary in January 1987, effectively ending his period of influence within the Chinese government.Following <mask>'s second expulsion from the Communist Party, Party officials attempted to mediate with <mask> to change <mask>'s critical opinion of them, but were unsuccessful. In an interview with a reporter from Hong Kong in 1988, <mask> came close to advocating the abolition of the Chinese Communist Party. When the Tiananmen Square protests began in 1989, <mask> wrote a letter to Deng in support of the protesters, and organized a student march on Shanghai's city hall. The Tiananmen protests were suppressed in the June 4 "Tiananmen Massacre", and <mask> went into hiding in the countryside on June 14. His friends influenced him to return to Shanghai on June 19 by convincing him that he would not be arrested. <mask> was one of the few senior leaders of the Tiananmen protests who did not escape China. Following his return to Shanghai, <mask> was put under house arrest until he was formally charged for his involvement in the demonstrations on September 8, 1989.He was accused in the Chinese media of "listening to the Voice of America and spreading rumors based on its broadcasts, writing articles in support of the student hunger strike, giving counterrevolutionary speeches on Shanghai's People's Square... publishing articles in the Hong Kong press", and trying to "overthrow the Party's leadership" with his writing. <mask> was sentenced to fourteen months in prison. After his release from prison, his activities were closely watched by the government. Life in exile
In 1992, following pressure from the American government, <mask> was allowed to leave his home in Shanghai, in order to accept a temporary position as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, in New York City. He lived as an exile in the United States from then until his death, but always dreamed of returning to China. He traveled widely through North America, attempting to unite other exiled Chinese dissidents in a common cause, but was unsuccessful. He died on December 19, 2001, two weeks after his doctors discovered that he had terminal lung cancer.One week before <mask>'s death the Chinese government offered to allow <mask> to return to China on the condition that he not publish articles critical of the Chinese government or meet with local dissidents, but he refused. He was sent to Elmhurst Hospital in New York City, where he died. He was survived by his second wife, Yang Zi, and seven children. Two of his children flew from Shanghai to be with him before he died. Following <mask>'s death, the Chinese government arrested ten men in Shanghai for discussing the possibility of a memorial service for <mask>. Hundreds of people visited his memorial service in New York, including the most significant Chinese exiles then living in the United States. Some of those present included Liu Binyan, Fang Lizhi, Yan Jiaqi, Harry Wu, Wei Jingsheng, Xiao Qiang, <mask>, Tang Baiqiao, Cao Changqing, Chen Pokong and Gao Zhan.A representative of The Dalai Lama, who <mask> had met several times following his exile, eulogized him at the memorial as a "freedom fighter". Footnotes

References
 Cheng, Eddie. "People of 1989: <mask>wang". Standoff At Tiananmen. December 19, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2013. Derbyshire, John."The Single Talent Well Employ'd: <mask>wang 1918-2001". National Review Online. January 3, 2002. Retrieved April 28, 2013. Gittings, John. "<mask>wang: Dissident Chinese Intellectual Devoted to Exposing 'False Marxists'". The Guardian.January 9, 2002. Retrieved April 28, 2013. "Dalai Lama Calls <mask> a Freedom Fighter for a Liberal and Democratic China". International Campaign for Tibet. December 30, 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2013. Lee, Khoon Choy.Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 2005. .
 Mirsky, Jonathan. "The Life and Death of <mask>wang". China Brief. Volume 2, Issue 2. Washington, DC: The Jamestown Foundation.2002. Retrieved April 27, 2013. "<mask>, 83, Writer And Dissident Exiled by China". New York Times. December 23, 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2013. Rubin, Kyna."Introduction: The Growth of a Nation and an Intellectual". In <mask>. The Hunger Trilogy. Trans. Kyna Rubin and Ira Kasoff. United States: East Gate. 1991. . Retrieved April 28, 2013.Woo, Elaine. "<mask>, 83; Social Critic Spurned by 2 Chinese Regimes". Los Angeles Times. December 22, 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2013/

External links
 Wangruowang.org, a biography of <mask>wang. A review of <mask>'s book, Hunger Trilogy. 1918 births
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Victims of the Cultural Revolution
People's Republic of China essayists
Writers from Changzhou
20th-century novelists
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese male novelists
20th-century essayists
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title: Jonathan A. Campbell

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<mask> (born 13 May 1947) is an American herpetologist. He is currently professor of biology at University of Texas at Arlington. He was a distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. <mask> earned his Bachelor of Science in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, and he earned his PhD degree in systematics and ecology in 1982 at University of Kansas. Honors and awards
 June 2014 - Distinguished Honoree
 March 2014 - Distinguished Alumnus Award
 August 2012 - Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology
 June 2008 - W. Frank Blair Eminent Naturalist Award
 June 2003 - Texas Distinguished Scientist
 May 2000 - Nominee, Piper Professor Award
 February 2000 - Research Associate
 January 2000 - Scientific Achievement Award
 June 1999 - Distinguished Herpetologist of the Herpetologists’ League
 May 1999 - Academy of Distinguished Teachers
 May 1998 - Distinguished Record of Research Award
 May 1990 - Excellence in Research Award
 May 1990 - Chancellor's Council Excellence in Teaching Award

Taxa

Named after him
Taxa named after him include:
Bothrocophias campbelli (Freire-Lascano, 1991)
Abronia campbelli E.D. Brodie Jr. & Savage, 1993
Bothrops jonathani Harvey, 1994
Incilius campbelli (Mendelson, 1994)
Craugastor myllomyllon (Savage, 2000)
Craugastor campbelli (E.N. Smith, 2005)
Anolis campbelli (G. Köhler & E.N.The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. xiv + 430 pp., 568 figures, 109 distribution maps, 31 tables. .
<mask>A, Brodie ED Jr. (editors) (1992). Biology of the Pitvipers. Tyler, Texas: Selva. xi + 567 pp., 200 figs., 100 tables, 17 plates with 122 color illustrations. .
<mask>A (1998). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, Yucatán, and Belize.Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 367 pp. .
McDiarmid RW, <mask>A, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: The Herpetologists League. xi + 511 pp.  .
<mask>A, Lamar WW (2004).The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. (2 volumes). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. xvii + 870 pp., 282 figs., 8 color maps, 113 distribution maps, 1,500 plates, 63 tables. .

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title: Allan Lichtman

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<mask> (; born April 4, 1947) is an American historian who has taught at American University in Washington, D.C. since 1973. Lichtman created the Keys to the White House model, which he created with Russian seismologist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981. The model uses 13 True/False criteria to predict whether the candidate of an incumbent party will win or lose the next election for the U.S. president. He ran for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 2006, finishing in sixth place in the Democratic primary. Lichtman authored the 2017 book The Case for Impeachment, laying out multiple arguments for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Early life
<mask> was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School.<mask> received his B.A. degree from Brandeis University in history in 1967, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude while also running track and wrestling for the school. In 1973, Lichtman received his Ph.D. from Harvard University as a Graduate Prize Fellow, also in history. Career

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Lichtman began teaching at American University in 1973, rising to chair of the History Department, and was named Scholar/Professor of the Year in 1993. Outside of the classroom, Lichtman has testified as an expert witness on civil rights in more than 70 cases for the U.S. Department of Justice and for civil rights groups such as the NAACP, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He also consulted for Vice President Al Gore and Senator Edward Kennedy. He assisted the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation into voting irregularities in Florida during the 2000 election, submitting his statistical analysis of balloting problems.Lichtman concluded "there were major racial disparities in ballot rejection rates". In the early 1980s while living in California as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Lichtman had a 17-show stint on the game show Tic Tac Dough. He won $100,000 during his time on the show. Author and commentator
<mask> is best known for the "Keys" system, presented in his books The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency and The Keys to the White House. The system uses thirteen historical factors to predict whether the popular vote in the election for President of the United States will be won by the candidate of the party holding the presidency (regardless of whether the president is the candidate). The keys were selected based on their correlations with the presidential election results from 1860 through 1980, using statistical methods adapted from the work of geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok for predicting earthquakes. The system then correctly predicted the popular vote winner in each of the elections between 1984 and 2012, including a correct prediction of Gore as a popular vote winner in 2000.Lichtman has provided commentary for networks and cable channels such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. In the 2020 Presidential Election, Lichtman correctly predicted that Democrat Joe Biden would defeat Republican Donald Trump in both the popular vote and the electoral college. Nate Silver has criticized Lichtman's "keys", writing that several of the keys are subjective. For example, two of the keys are whether the incumbent has charisma and whether the challenger has charisma. Silver wrote, "it’s awfully easy to describe someone as charismatic when he or she is ahead in the polls — or when you have the advantage of hindsight and know who won an election." In April 2017, Lichtman authored the book The Case for Impeachment, laying out multiple arguments for the impeachment of Donald Trump. The Financial Times gave The Case for Impeachment a positive review, writing: "Lichtman's powerful book is a reminder that we are only at the start of the Trump investigations."The Washington Post called it "striking to see the full argument unfold". New York Journal of Books recommended it as a resource, "if you are a member of Congress trying to grapple with all that this administration has wrought." The Hill gave the author praise, writing: "Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." CBC News consulted law scholars that said the fulfillment of Lichtman's impeachment prediction was unlikely, especially with a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives. Trump was impeached by the U. S. House of Representatives on December 18, 2019, but acquitted by the U. S. Senate on February 5, 2020. 2006 U.S. Senate race in Maryland

<mask> announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States Senate from Maryland in the 2006 election to replace Senator Paul Sarbanes; in a playful opening television ad, he pledged not to be a "conventional politician" and jumped into the C&O Canal in a business suit. Lichtman was seen as a long-shot candidate, with low support in polls.He criticized front-runner U.S. Representative Ben Cardin for his votes in favor of funding for the Iraq War. When <mask> was not invited by the League of Women Voters to the Maryland Public Television debate, he and other excluded candidates (Josh Rales and Dennis F. Rasmussen) protested outside the Baltimore County television studio; Lichtman and his wife were arrested after a confrontation with a security guard. In 2006, both were acquitted on all charges. <mask> lost in the primary election to Cardin, receiving 6,919 votes (1.2%), landing him in 6th place in a field of 18. In October 2012, The Washington Post reported that he was still paying off a mortgage he took out in order to help fund his campaign. Awards and honors
Lichtman has received numerous awards at American University during his career. Most notably, he was named Distinguished Professor of History in 2011 and Outstanding Scholar/Teacher for 1992–93, the highest faculty award at that school.FDR & the Jews, (Co-authored with Richard Breitman. Harvard University Press, 2013)
 The Case for Impeachment, HarperCollins, 2017,
 The Embattled Vote in America, Harvard University Press, 2018. Repeal the Second Amendment: The Case for a Safer America, St. Martin's Press, 2020,
 Thirteen Cracks: Repairing American Democracy after Trump, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021,

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 <mask>'s biography from American University
 <mask>man Announces Candidacy (WTOP)
 Despite Keys, Obama Is No Lock
 Keys to the White House' Historian Responds"

 "Professor who called Trump election now predicts impeachment", video on YouTube, via the CBS News official channel

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title: Thomas Reichstein

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<mask> (born 24 November 1960) is a German sculptor. Life
<mask> was born in Halle/Saale. Starting as a gardener, he studied landscape architecture at the university in Dresden TU in Dresden from 1982 till 1984. After this he studied fine arts in the sculptor section of the art school in Dresden Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden. His teacher was professor Klaus Schwabe. He got his diploma in 1990. He became a freelance sculptor in Dresden.From 1992 until 1997 he went to Ghana for three months every year to a brass casting village near Kumasi. Applying the lost wax technique, he produced small abstract and ornamental figures. These objects made him well known in Saxony. In 1995 he started a workshop with the woodcarvers in Neuireland, an island of Papua. He learned to carve mangrove wood in the Malanggan style. One year later he went to Oro province in Papua. He made tapa cloth from the bark of a tropical mulberry tree.With this material and rattan sticks from Vietnam he created his Rattan-Tapa sculptures. He showed them for the first time in the ethnographic museum in Dresden. As a result <mask> developed a special type of rattan bark cloth – sculptures. In 1997 he won a competition for the Semperoper Dresden for a yearly given award-sculpture. His idea impressed the jury with the balance of abstraction and reality. Thus he found the successful relation to music, singing and dancing the basic elements of the opera in an equal manner. Since then Reichstein received further orders for price-sculptures from politics and economy (e.g.Dresdner marketing price, MTM Award). From 1 January 1998 to 31 December 1998 taught <mask> in the Saxon stonemason school in Demitz – Thumitz. He developed the stonework there specific technical basics of design and taught inter alia freehand drawing, sketching and modeling to nature. Since 1999, <mask> operates several months a year in a Buddhafoundry in Ban Pong in Thailand. From 1999 to 2005 he created here a rich series of abstract sculptures. Since 2006 he worked there with the German artist Doreen Wolff and since 2010 even with Catrin Große. Since 2006 he started to develop a big quantity of human figures.Since 2006, <mask> used again reinforces the human figure to. So he created, for example, in 2009 a group of Nereids – the nymphs from the Mediterranean sea, inspired by classical Greek models from the British Museum in London. Figure table image

<mask> was 2000–2012 Chairman of the Saxon artists association and 1997–2012 board member of the Federal Dresden artists. 2005 he was Member of the Board of the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) of Germany. Since 2012, <mask> is the CEO of the New Saxon Art Association. <mask> is father of four children. In 2006, <mask> wins with a digression into the world of geometry.He designed from Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan bodies a Polyeder-Circlesculpture and thus achieves a competition of Saxony for a study academy first place. The first prize of a competition of Jena gets Reichstein in 2007 for his sculpture "Big Fish" and " Saalewave". These are very directly involved in the redesign of the promenade along the river Saale in Jena. They are especially designed with a safety ground on touching. The overall project receives in 2009 the Thuringian landscape architecture award. Since 2010, <mask> begins a new convolute from life-sized bronze figures, which has grown by 2013 to 25 works. These develop from creations in statuesque appeal to Lucas Cranach the Elder, to freely moving, dance and expressive representations.Since first May operates <mask> with the painter and sculptor Doreen Wolff, a co-operative gallery in the city center of Dresden, 20 Schlossstrasse, Castle Street in which they show only their own works of art. Working stays in foreign countries
 Bulgaria – Plowdiw, 1983, landscape drawings as student of landscape architecture. Sowjet Union – Leningrad, 1987, Studies in the eremitage and the studio of Michail Anikuschin as student of the dresden school of fine arts. France – Paris, Oktobre 1989, exhibition in the culture centre of the GDR in Paris, with a study visit. Ghana – Kumasi 1992–1997 every year for three month <mask> is a sting series of small sculptures in bronze. France – Montpellier/Clermont de Herault,  by invitation of the french culture centre in Dresden <mask>ein works with Mrs. Chris Matthia in South France
 Papua-New guinea – Neuirland, 1995 and 1996, Reichtein works together with tradiional woodcarvers. Kolumbien - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1998, Work with Indians from the ribe of the Kogi.Thailand – Ban Pong/Ratchaburi, 1999 bis 2018, every year work in a big Buddha casting factory in Ban Pong. Italien – Laas/Südtirol, 2011, Work with marble and exhibition

Exhibitions
 Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann 1990 „Ferrum Vitalis“
 Galerie Autogen, 1991 „Stahl axial“
 Landhaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie 1992. Otomfo – Okomfo: afrikanischer Gelbguss von <mask>stein 1992–1994, Kurator: Uwe J Gellner, Kloster unser Lieben Frauen, Museen der Stadt Magdeburg
 Export Import, <mask> mit L. Azure, H. Lippmann und H. Stark: 2. Oktober bis 6. November 1994, Galerie Rähnitzgasse der Landeshauptstadt Dresden
 <mask>stein – Kunstverständigung über Kontinente. 1. Oeuvreausstellung in den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden durch die Skulpturensammlung im Albertinum.29. Oktober 2000 bis 31. Januar 2001, Kuratorin: Bärbel Stephan, kommissarische Direktorin der Skulpturensammlung der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
 Galerie Sybille Nütt 2004, von quellgöttern, jungen pferden und dieser ahnung vom urklang der dinge ...
 Galerie Tatzl Graz/Österreich 2006, <mask>stein „auf draht“& Hans Staudacher
 Figur-Abstrakt Ausstellungstrilogie in Bangkok in der deutschen Botschaft, im Goetheinstitut und im Central World Center. März bis April 2008, Initiator und Kurator W. Eckstein, Direktor des Goetheinstituts. Seemannskirche Prerow 2011, Ne-re-i-den und andere Bronze-Plastiken
 Kunstverein Worpswede 2011; „Klavier und Geige - Werke von Karl Oppermann und <mask>“ mit Prof. Karl Oppermann, Berlin
 Markuskirche in Laas/Italien 2011
 Schloss Pillnitz, 2011
 Doreen Wolff und <mask>: „Paar-a-dox“, 2012, Galerie in der Landesdirektion des Freistaates Sachsen
 Bibliothek Stettin/Polen mit Timm Stütz 2013. Stadtarchiv der Landeshauptstadt Dresden 2013 mit Doreen Wolff
 Kunstverein Worpswede, Sommerfreiluftausstellung „Livesize, Together-Alone“, Sommer 2014
 Galerie Waidspeicher der Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Nov.–Dez. 2014 mit Andreas Eichstaedt, Plastiken und Malerei
 Doppelausstellung in Westerland auf Sylt, Mai bis September 2015 Sechs lebensgroße Figuren auf dem Rathausvorplatz, Mai 2015 Galerie „Alte Post“ mit dem Kunstverein „Kunstfreunde Sylt“: Plastiken und Malerei von Thomas Reichstein und Doreen Wolff

Works
Arche – copperfigure.Dresden zoo, 1995. Elbewaechter – sandstone. Tangermuende, 1998. Mamawata Ostara – sandstone, Ostritz/Neisse, 2000. Kentauer – bamboofigure. Dresden, 2001. Olbrichtplatz, Dresden
Minos – stainless steel Dresden, 2002.Stuebelallee, Nähe Comeniusplatz
Saalewelle and Big Fisch – broncesculptures, Wenigenjenaer Riverbanks in Jena, 2007. Wuerfelwiese – Polyederring, campus of the Staatlichen Studienakadamie in Riesa, 2006
Nereidengruppe – brassfugures. German embassy Bangkok, 2010. Books
Baerbel Stephan: Minos Centauros – <mask>. Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Dresden 2001, . <mask>stein: Otomfo, Okomfo. Afrikanischer Gelbguss.1992–1994. Magdeburger Museen, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg 1994,  (catalogue of the  exhibition at Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, 1994). Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Kulturamt: <mask>. Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt, Dresden 1994 (catalogue of the  exhibition "Export Import“, 1994 in the gallery "Rähnitzgasse"). External links

classic website of the artist

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title: Russell Targ

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<mask> (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing. <mask> joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972 where he and Harold E. Puthoff coined the term "remote viewing" for the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using parapsychological means. Later he worked with Puthoff on the US Defence Intelligence Agency's Stargate Project. <mask>'s work on remote viewing has been characterized as pseudoscience and has also been criticized for lack of rigor. Early life, education and career
<mask> was born in Chicago. He is the son of <mask>, an American book editor who was well known and respected in the field of commercial publishing. According to Martin Gardner, <mask> was introduced to the paranormal by his father whose Chicago bookstore carried a variety of paranormal works and whose later published works at Putnam included a biography of Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, and Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods.<mask> received a B.S. in physics from Queens College in 1954. From 1954 to 1956, he completed two years of graduate work in physics at Columbia University without taking a degree. Lasers and engineering research
<mask> was involved in early laser research at Technical Research Group where he co-authored, with Gordon Gould among others, a 1962 paper describing the use of homodyne detection with laser light. Later, at Sylvania Electronic Systems, he contributed to the development of frequency modulation and mode-locking of lasers, and co-authored a 1969 paper which described the operation of a kilowatt continuous wave laser. In 1972, <mask> joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at SRI as a senior research physicist in a program founded by Harold E. Puthoff. The two conducted research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including NASA, the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence.<mask> worked at SRI until 1982. From 1986 to 1998 <mask> worked in electro-optics as a senior staff scientist at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, where he contributed to aviation windshear sensing applications of Doppler heterodyne lidar technology. Parapsychology research

Remote viewing

Remote viewing (or RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using subjective means, in particular, extra-sensory perception (ESP) or "sensing with mind". Typically a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person or location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance. The term was coined in the 1970s by <mask> and Puthoff, while working as researchers at SRI, to differentiate it from clairvoyance. In 1972 Puthoff and <mask> tested remote viewer Ingo Swann at SRI, and the experiment led to a visit from two employees of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. The result was a $50,000 CIA-sponsored project known as the Stargate Project.The SRI team published papers in Nature and Proceedings of the IEEE. They also presented their work in a symposium on consciousness at a national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A number of scientific reviews of the SRI (and later) experiments on remote viewing found no credible evidence that remote viewing works, and the topic of remote viewing is regarded as pseudoscience. Reception
The psychologists David Marks and Richard Kammann attempted to replicate <mask> and Puthoff's remote viewing experiments and disputed the claims that the experiments were successful; for example, they were able to successfully identify targets from cues given by the investigators and recorded in the transcripts. They concluded: "Until remote viewing can be confirmed in conditions which prevent sensory cueing the conclusions of <mask> and Puthoff remain an unsubstantiated hypothesis." The researchers said that <mask> and Puthoff had not provided unpublished transcripts when requested, but that after obtaining them from a judge in the study they were able to find "a wealth of cues". Simon Hoggart and Mike Hutchinson described <mask> as willing to believe and overly credulous.A 1988 report by the United States National Research Council (NRC) concluded: "There should remain little doubt that the Targ–Puthoff studies are fatally flawed." Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s upon the declassification of certain documents related to the Stargate Project, a US$20 million research program that had started in 1975 and was sponsored by the U.S. government in an attempt to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena. The program was terminated in 1995 after it failed to produce any useful intelligence information. David Goslin, of the American Institutes for Research said: "There's no documented evidence it had any value to the intelligence community." A variety of scientific studies of remote viewing have been conducted. Some earlier, less sophisticated experiments produced positive results, but they had invalidating flaws. None of the more recent experiments have shown positive results when conducted under properly controlled conditions.This lack of successful experiments has led the mainstream scientific community to reject remote viewing, based upon the absence of an evidence base, the lack of a theory which would explain remote viewing, and the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably positive results. Science writers including Gary Bennett, Martin Gardner, Michael Shermer, and professor of neurology Terence Hines describe the topic of remote viewing as pseudoscience. According to Martin Gardner, <mask> and Puthoff "imagined they could do research in parapsychology but instead dealt with 'psychics' who were cleverer than they were". Further work on parapsychology
The SRI remote viewing project also encompassed the work of such consulting "consciousness researchers" as the artist/writer Ingo Swann and Military Intelligence Corps chief warrant officer Joseph McMoneagle. <mask> and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, retired police commissioner Pat Price and artist Ingo Swann all had genuine psychic abilities; however, flaws were found with the controls in the experiments and Geller was caught using sleight of hand on many other occasions. The SRI tests gave Geller substantial control over the procedures used to test him, with few limits on his behavior during the test. In 1982, Targ with Keith Harary and Anthony White formed a company, Delphi Associates, to sell psychic consulting services to individuals and businesses.In the book Mind Race, Targ and Harary claimed that all nine silver futures predictions made at Delphi in 1982 were correct; however, a later attempt failed. According to Henry Gordon, "As with most psychic claims, there is little documentation to back them up." Ray Hyman has written "Targ and Harary's much-publicized case for the reality of psi and the validity of remote viewing is filled with exaggerated and unsupported conclusions. Their careless scholarship leads to new deceptions." Personal life
<mask> was married to Joan Fischer <mask>, who died in 1998. <mask> and Joan had a daughter, <mask>, who was a psychiatrist and parapsychologist and two sons Alexander and Nicholas. In 2003 <mask> married artist Patricia Kathleen Phillips.Joan Fischer <mask> was the sister of World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. In 2004 <mask> assisted Fischer, who had been a fugitive in the United States since violating a trade embargo with his 1992 victory over Boris Spassky. While Fischer was detained in Japan with extradition pending, <mask> worked to support a claim of German citizenship for Fischer. In Pawn Sacrifice, a 2014 biopic of Fischer, <mask> appears briefly, portrayed by Marco Verdoni. <mask>, who is legally blind, is an avid motorcyclist and has published a memoir on his experiences as a "blind biker". Publications

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On remote viewing

On precognition

On lasers and electro-optics

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ESPResearch.com - <mask>'s site

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title: Marisa Matias

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<mask> (Coimbra, 20 February 1976) is a Portuguese sociologist and Member of the European Parliament, elected for the first time in 2009 and re-elected in 2014. She currently sits on the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committees. She is also Chairwoman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the Mashreq countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria). Between 2010 and 2016 she was Vice-President of the Party of the European Left. In November 2015, <mask> announced her candidacy for the 2016 Portuguese presidential elections, representing the Left Bloc party. She finished 3rd, with 10,12% of the votes, the best result ever achieved by a woman in a presidential election in Portugal at the time. She was also a candidate for Left Bloc in the 2021 Portuguese presidential election in which she came 5th, with 3.95% of the vote.Biography

<mask> <mask> studied Sociology at the University of Coimbra, where she completed her doctoral thesis: “Is nature sick of us? Health, environment and emerging forms of citizenship” (2009). Her areas of specialisation include environmental health, sociology of science, political sociology, democracy and participation. She has published several scientific articles, chapters in books and other publications, on the relations between environment and public health, science and knowledge, democracy and citizenship. Civic and political activity
<mask> is a member of the Left Bloc National Board and Executive Board; as well as a member of the board of Pro-Urbe, a civic association in Coimbra. She was a national trustee of the movement "Cidadania e Responsabilidade pelo Sim", during the campaign for decriminalization of abortion in Portugal. She was also an activist in the movement against co-incineration in Souselas (pt) and head of the Left Bloc list in the elections for Coimbra Municipality (2005).Member of the European Parliament

2009 – 2014
In 2009, <mask> was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Left Bloc, which sits as part of the political group GUE/NGL in the European Parliament. She was made a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee and the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee and a member of the delegations for relations with the Mashriq Countries, with Palestine, and with South Africa. At the beginning of her mandate, <mask> was nominated the Parliament's rapporteur to write and negotiate the directive preventing the distribution of counterfeit medicines, a business that generates more than €400 billion per year for the counterfeiting networks and puts at risk the life of patients. The directive, negotiated for almost two years with the parliamentary groups and the governments, was approved in 2011. This was only the second time since Portugal's entrance into the EU that a Portuguese MEP had led the process of a framework-directive - a law that will be transposed to the judicial system of each of the EU Member States. At the same time, she was also rapporteur of the European strategy in the fight against Alzheimer and other dementias, that was also approved in 2011. She was co-president of the European Work Group for Diabetes, being co-author of the first resolution to ever be approved in the European Parliament aiming at the definition of a political strategy to fight the diabetes epidemic (2010).In addition, she was involved in the planning and approval of resolutions on cancer and HIV, and was an active member of the parliamentary committee of inquiry on the H1N1 vaccine. In 2011, <mask> was chosen by her peers, with more than 350 votes, as MEP of the Year for health - the only MEP from the United Left Parliamentary Group to receive this honour since its creation. Throughout 2011 and 2012, <mask> was the Parliament's rapporteur for the definition of a Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation. The report was approved in 2012 and established the bases for what should be the proposal for the Horizon 2020 programme on the European financing of research and innovation for the period 2014–2020. Besides the proposal to reinforce the funds and of a better geographical distribution of the funds, the approved proposal also included a significant increase of support to the scientific work and to the attribution of scholarships within the European financing framework. Later, would also be part of the team of six rapporteurs, nominated by the European Parliament, to the definition and negotiation of the proposal about the Horizon 2020, being responsible for one of the legislative regulations on the Strategic Agenda for Innovation. The legislative package would end up being approved at the end of 2013, being already active since January 2014.In 2012, she was still nominated rapporteur of the European Parliament for the evaluation of the European Central Bank (ECB) activities of 2011, the year the ECB presidency changed. In a very disputed process and hard negotiations, her report would be approved by one vote of difference in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Later, the report would be approved, in plenary, still in 2013, but <mask> <mask> requested her name to be withdraw as a result of approved changes in the final vote. Those changed took out of the report all the critical references to the ECB as member of the European Troika, equally eliminating the proposal to oblige the ECB to restore to the countries under the Troika's intervention the profits resulting from the complex processes of buying and selling of public debt titles. <mask> <mask> was, still, the Parliament's rapporteur for four opinion on European strategy for adapting to climate change, resettling of GDP calculation, proposal for a new pluri-annual financing framework and regulation defining indexes on the goods traded in stock market. As shadow rapporteur, meaning, MEP responsible within its parliamentary group, to follow and negotiate proposals led by other colleagues from other parliamentary groups, <mask> <mask> followed, during the mandate, the making of 25 parliamentary proposals, having presented proposals for change and being present in negotiation meetings. So far, was also co-author of 119 proposals of parliamentary resolutions.While Vice-President of the Parliament to the relations with the Mashreq countries (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt) was part and presided to several parliamentary negotiations with these countries, coordinating processes of negotiation with the correspondent national parliaments. This was also done during the period known for the transformations introduced by the Arab Spring. <mask> is also member of the Parliament's Delegation to the relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, having developed initiatives mainly concerning the siege of the Gaza Strip. Presidential candidacy
On 18 October 2015, Catarina Martins, coordinator of the Left Bloc, announced that, as no credible unifying leftist candidate had thus far come forward for the Presidential elections of January 2016, <mask> <mask> allowed her name to be put forward as representing her party in those elections. She finished 3rd, with 10,12% of the votes, the best result ever achieved by a woman in a presidential election in Portugal. On 9 September 2021, <mask> <mask> announced she would run for president again on the 2021 Portuguese presidential election. References

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