He was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976 and Governor of Arkansas in 1978. His first term as a governor encountered great troubles. Many of his reforms were strongly rejected. He was defeated in 1980 re-election and spent most of the next two

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Ivy Ode 常青颂 The annual Yale Commencement is always held on the last Monday of May, which is the Memorial Day. It usually lasts for three days from the preceding Saturday to Monday. All degree candidates一undergraduates, as well as candidates f

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Maya Lin 美籍华裔建筑师----林璎 Maya Lin, a Chinese American, was born in Athens, Ohio in 1959. Her parents immigrated to the United States from China in 1949 and settled in Ohio in 1958, one year before Maya Lin was born. Her father, Henry

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 希拉里克林顿 Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, born on October 26, 1947 in Illinois, is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was born to Hugh E. Rodham, who m

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During 1974,as one of the only 3 women out of 43 lawyers, Hillary was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., working on the inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon. In August 1974,President Richard

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Academy Awards 学院奖 The ceremony of Academy Awards (frequently well known as the Oscars),which is considerate to be one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scienc

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Angelo Bartlett Giamatti 耶鲁校长嘉马地 Angelo Bartlett Bart Giamatti was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti was born in Boston and grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts. G

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During the Battle of Long Island, which led to British victory and the capture of New York City, via a flanking move from Staten Island across Long Island, Hale volunteered on September 8,1776,to go behind enemy lines and report on British troop

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The Yale Bands 备受瞩目的耶鲁乐团 YALE CONCERT BAND 耶鲁大学室内乐团 The Yale Concert Band, the musical center for the wood wind and brass world at Yale University, is best known for its varied repertoire, which spans from traditiona

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Nathan Hale 内森黑尔 Nathan Hale was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British. He is bes

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Yung Wing 留学教育先驱容闳 Yung Wing, born at Nanping,Xiang Shan County (presently Zhuhai City) in Guangdong province, studied in Robert Morrison's missionary schools as a boy. In 1847,sponsored by some American and English men then livin

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Yale University History 耶鲁建校及得名 Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, is a private research university, and a member of the Ivy League. Being the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, the unive

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At the same time, a rift existed at Harvard between its sixth president Increase Mather and the rest of the Harvard clergy. Mather thought that they were increasingly liberal, and didn't maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy; what's more, after hi

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Sterling Memorial Library 斯特林纪念图书馆 Yale University has a huge library system of 25 libraries, including Sterling Memorial Library, Law Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and so on and so forth. 耶鲁大学拥有一个庞

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The area from the entrance to the information desk is called the nave,the same as that in a church. The Nave is decorated with marble reliefs depicting the history of Yale Library. For instance, on the left hand at the entrance, it is the story of

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Residential Colleges at Yale 耶鲁大学住宿学院 Yale College students, who are undergraduates, are accommodated in a special way. Before freshman year, all incoming undergraduates are assigned to a residential college by lots. Students remain a

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Calhoun College, named for John C. Calhoun, former vice-president and influential member of Congress of the United States. 卡尔霍恩学院:以约翰C卡尔霍思之名命名,曾就任美国副总统,也曾是美国众议员的重要人物。

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Faculty Governance 教授治校 Faculty governance is the traditional administration model in western universities. It has a long history. Dating from Paris University in the Middle Ages, it has played a very important role in the development of west

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Lotteries 彩票的发展历程 A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. Some governments outlaw it, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some deg

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Storming the Court 法庭风暴 Storming the Court~How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President and Won, is written by Brandt Goldstein. He is an attorney and writer whose articles have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Washing

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