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And she said "Yes, that's former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper."
Former Philadelphia Eagles strong safety, [44] years old, a Division II football coach when he decided to put a gun to his head.
One of my first pledges was a former Harvard hockey player, Noah Welch, who was in the NHL at the time.
Now one day it might be that mothers will hire an out-of-work, middle-aged, former steelworker guy to watch their children at home, and that would be good for the men, but that hasn't quite happened yet.
And if anyone should be clinging to the former glory of the coal mining history, and of the town, it should be Judy.
By the way, Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP, had a plaque on his desk inscribed with this inspirational slogan: "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
He's a former hotel manager; he's got three dozen members of his church ..." They laugh him off.
And one of my former doctoral students, Dr. Mary Schweitzer, actually had the background to do this sort of thing.
But if you look at China, Vietnam and a number of the former Soviet states, what's happening there is more troubling.
When I write and direct plays, I'm amplifying voices of disadvantaged groups, I'm fighting the self-censorship that has kept many Ugandan artists away from social, political theater since the persecution of artists by former Ugandan president, Idi Amin.
But one of the things that has stayed with me is when, during my Northern Uganda tour of the play, a man approached me and introduced himself as a former rebel soldier of Joseph Kony.
There was a beaten up black and white television flickering in the background, and a former head of state and general was being blindfolded and tied to the pole.
So in trying to understand and solve hate, I read every book and every research study I could find, but I also went and talked to some former Nazis and some former terrorists and some former genocidal killers, because I figured if they could figure out how to escape hate, surely the rest of us could.
Let me give you just one example of the former terrorist I spent time with in the West Bank.
And eventually, after prison, Bassam went on to get a master's degree in Holocaust studies and he founded an organization where former Palestinian combatants and Israeli combatants come together, work together, try to find common ground.
If a former terrorist ... if a terrorist can learn to stop hating and still not hate when their child is killed, surely the rest of us can stop our habits of demeaning and dehumanizing each other.
And Carl Norden is very firmly in the former camp.
Our plenary speaker was the former governor of the state of New Jersey.
And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's took on the task of teaching me to write.
Mr. Smith, one of my former colleagues, uses Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" in his literature and film class, because that book gives his students the language with which to discuss the relationship between words and images.
Using purification and mutational genomic approaches, as well as a technique allowing the measurement of directed hyphal growth, today I'm glad to tell you that after 130 years, my former team and I could finally identify such plant signals by studying the interaction between a pathogenic fungus called Fusarium oxysporum and one of its host plants, the tomato plant.
Sudesh invented this glove after observing former leprosy patients as they carried out their day-to-day activities, and he learned about the risks and the hazards in their environment.
So I went out reporting and within a day I met Narcisa Kavazovic who at that point was opening a new factory on the war's former front lines in Sarajevo.
This is in the former Soviet Union in between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, one of the great inland seas of the world.
We then used that former to manufacture a perfectly bespoke porous textile mesh, which takes the shape of the former and perfectly fits the aorta.
So what I'm going to show here is something that was already presented in TED by the former mayor of Curitiba who created that, a city in Brazil, Jaime Lerner.
Former oil man Maurice Strong said, "Not all the fossils are in the fuel."
So rather than viewing their former regimes as generous if overprotective fathers, they viewed them as essentially prison wardens.
He told the former ombudsman at National Public Radio, who was doing a report on how women fare in NPR coverage, unconscious bias flows throughout most of our lives.
John Morton is a former Can-Am and IMSA driver, who's also a class champion at Le Mans.
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