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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and The Faculty.
Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama to Alden Brewster, an American investment banker, and Maria João Leal de Sousa, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model from Brazil.
Brewster studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York.
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  Biography of Franklin D. Kingman
His father was Isaiah Kingman, a native of Bridgewater, Mass., born February 17, 1774, and was married in 1799 to Lucy Daniels, of Worthington, Mass.; she was born December 6, 1780.
Kingman died in 1538, and in 1854 he was married to Theodosia, daughter of Eliphalet Parish, of Bergen, and widow of Chester W. Smith, of Northampton, Mass., who survives him.
Kingman was a man of pleasing personality; genial and sympathetic in his nature, he won the love and confidence of all.
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 History News Network
Brewster's problem with today's team wouldn't have been partisan; he and many in his circle were Republicans, albeit of a genus now extinct.
Brewster was the most expressive and innovative of the group, and Kabaservice credits partly his youthful rites of passage as a sailing champion off his ancestral Martha's Vineyard.
In the book's climax, Brewster's college, still the ancient temple of a national WASP elite but by then also a modern template for a new leadership training, becomes for two years the national stage on which that leadership is tested.
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 YAM December 1999 - Birth of a New Institution
Brewster, who had spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's law school, felt that Clark would be the candidate most likely to improve Yale's undergraduate body along the lines of what Conant and Chauncey's efforts had accomplished in Cambridge.
Brewster -- perhaps reflecting his own appreciation for contrasting types -- believed that future leaders would come from a broader array of fields than in the past, and that even individuals "whose creative contribution will not be primarily intellectual or aesthetic, scholarly or artistic" would benefit from exposure to more scholars and artists.
Brewster's enthusiastic pursuit of government funds to support research in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and even the humanities in effect meant that the state had replaced the alumni as the University's most important patron.
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 Jordana Brewster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and D.E.B.S.
Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama to Alden Brewster, an American investment banker, and Maria João Leal de Sousa, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model from Brazil.
Brewster studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York.
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 Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Brewster was named Provost of Yale and they resided at 55 Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven.
Before his term as President of Yale came to an end in 1977, Kingman Brewster became known for the improvements he made to Yale's faculty, curriculum, and admissions policies, and for his resourceful handling of student protests against the Vietnam War.
Brewster is survived by five children: Constance Dedelow, Kingman Brewster, Jr., Deborah, Alden and Riley, and 11 grandchildren.
www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/04-04-19-04.all.html   (393 words)

  
 Crafting Leaders at Yale - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kingman Brewster Jr., the grand, wily, wacky eminence who ran Yale from 1964 to 1977, wanted it to produce each year 1,000 "leaders in their generation...
Brewster's problem with today's team wouldn't have been partisan; he and many in his circle were Republicans, albeit of a moderate genus now almost extinct.
Brewster's crewmates included fellow Yale undergrads McGeorge Bundy, the Vietnam War national security advisor and later Ford Foundation president; Cyrus Vance, the roving ambassador, domestic mediator extraordinaire and Jimmy Carter's secretary of state; New York Mayor John Lindsay; and New York's Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore Jr.
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 Jordana Brewster Biography
The granddaughter of former Yale president Kingman Brewster and daughter of an investment banker and a model, she began performing as a child, earning her first screen credit as a dancer in a 1988 Brazilian children's film starring the popular Xuxa.
After spending three years (1995-98) on the soap, Brewster left with the intention of attending Yale, but her acting career took off after she was cast as the bitchy cheerleader Delilah in the teen horror flick "The Faculty" (1998).
Brewster gained considerable exposure in her co-starring role in 2001's race car movie "The Fast and the Furious." Though the offers came pouring in after that, Brewster elected to return to Yale to finish her undergraduate schooling and take a break from the acting world for a while.
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 TSW: Jordana Brewster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
She may not be a household name just yet, but at the age of 20 Jordana Brewster has a five-year acting career and a two-year relationship with Hollywood player Mark Wahlberg under her belt.
Brewster's family background undoubtebly contributes to the aura of sophistication she projects.
Her grandfather Kingman Brewster also served as the president of Yale from 1963 to 1977.
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 The Yale Herald - October 1, 2004 - Brewster's Legacy: God, Country and Yale
Brewster oversaw an overhaul of Yale's admissions standards, and saw the campus through the riots and activism of the '60s.
I gradually got to find out more about Kingman Brewster and I was very interested to find that even at a distance of 20, 25, 30 years, he still raised these intense passions.
When I say that Kingman Brewster was a kind of leader among them, I mean that people's impressions of him would have put him exactly in that category.
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 Guide to the Inventory of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Presidential Records, 1941-1977 (Record Unit 11) : Finding Aid
Kingman Brewster, Jr., the seventeenth president of Yale University, was born on 17 June 1919 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Between degrees, Brewster served in World War II as a naval aviator and was released from active duty in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant.
Brewster himself was considered friendly, energetic, accessible, and loyal to the faculty, staff, and students.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Kingman
KINGMAN -- One of two inmates who escaped in June from the Mohave County jail annex was sentenced Friday to six years in prison.
Kingman police have released the name of the woman found seriously wounded New Year's Eve at her home with the body of a man police said was her estranged...
Kingman police are searching for a man in connection with the slaying of his wife and the wounding of a man said to be her boyfriend.
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 OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
Kingman Brewster, quoted above, knew what they should be.
The Brewster statement is accorded such totemic importance at Yale that it appears on its Web site with the notation that it "is the foundation on which specific selection criteria are based.
When Brewster notes that "a failure of moral sensitivity or regard for the dignity of others cannot be redeemed by allegations that the young man is extremely 'interesting,' " he is speaking to the heart of the Hashemi case.
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 Millers Falls Company History, 1920-1931
In 1920, Kingman Brewster, a lawyer who had served as vice-president at Greenfield Tap and Die, replaced Edward Stoughton as Millers Falls Company president.
Brewster's tenure at the Tap and Die works had not been a lengthy one, and his fractious relationship with his new board of directors resulted in a stay that was just as short.
Stoughton, on one of his frequent trips to Europe, learned that Brewster would be traveling to the continent and arranged for a meeting where he asked for Brewster's resignation.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Brewster,
He is noted especially for his research into the polarization of light (the invention of the kaleidoscope was one result of his studies).
near Brewster, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1785 and began practice in Poughkeepsie, N. Active in the Federalist party, he served several terms in the New York legislature.
The story of Asenath Brewster: pioneer in urban missions and mentor of Southern Baptist Leaders: by the time Asenath Brewster was thirty-two years old in 1911, she had taken a leading role in sending her denomination's first missionaries abroad and in forming its women's missionary organization.(Biography)
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 GordonPost's Jordana Brewster Page
Brewster and de Sousa met a few months after the photos were taken, at a reception at the Brazilian embassy in London, where he was working in a bank and she was modeling.
Her father, Fernando, was a wealthy architect who designed the houses of many of Rio's elite, including the one where the Brewsters now live with their two daughters, a German shepard, a Persian cat, a turtle, and two parakeets.
The Brewsters' daughters, Jordana, 8, and Isabella, 6, are back from the American School and are leafing through a tattered copy of SI with their mother on the cover.
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 YAM March 2000 - Letters
The Birth Goes On Although reformers like Inky Clark and Kingman Brewster no doubt changed the face of Yale ("The Birth of a New Institution," Dec.), Geoffrey Kabaservice's suggestion that their efforts verily threw open the doors of the University (and of other similarly "elite" institutions) to students of underprivileged backgrounds is fantastically misleading.
I was requested by President Brewster to return to Yale in the summer of 1972 to help in establishing a new office of public information, of which I would be the first director.
Brewster called me one morning from Martha's Vineyard and reported that he was coming down to New Haven for a few days.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/00_03/letters.html   (2699 words)

  
 Best Sexy Celebs: Jordana Brewster
The daughter of Alden Brewster, an investment banker, and Maria Joao, a former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model (which would explain Jordana's exotic looks), Jordana was relocated several times before finally settling down in Manhattan, New York.
By the time the Brewster family moved to New York, Jordana knew she was interested in acting, and participated in theater during her school days at Sacred Heart.
Family: grandfather is Kingman Brewster, former President of Yale University.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kingman
KINGMAN REPORT Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language...
A British report on the teaching of English in England and Wales, presented in 1988 to the Secretary of State for Education by the Committee of Inquiry into Teaching of English Language under the chairmanship of Sir John Kingman.
He was a professor of law at Harvard (1950-60) and president of Yale (1963-77), where as an opponent of the Vietnam War, he skillfully handled student demonstrations during that...
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 'Circus' Star Brewster Stays Out of Spotlight / Shy actress prefers hanging out with pals
Phoebe is Brewster's first big part since her three-year ride as Nikki on "As the World Turns" (1995-98).
It's true that Brewster rates pretty close to Julia Stiles on the hot-young- solemn-actress scale, the foil of, say, the carbonated glee of one-woman Tilt- a-Whirl Kirsten Dunst.
Brewster spent last summer finishing "The Fast and the Furious," an action- thriller co-starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and "Girlfight's" Michelle Rodriguez.
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 Jordana Brewster
Early life Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama to Alden Brewster, an American investment banker, and Maria João Leal de Sousa, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model from Brazil.
Career Brewster made her debut on the daytime soap opera, All My Children, in a one-time appearance playing Anita Santos.
After she dated him for a year, she became engaged to Andrew Form (who worked as a producer on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) on November 4, 2006, and told Us Weekly, "It wasn't a total surprise, but it was very spontaneous.
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 The Yale Herald - November 21, 2002 - Facing moral challenges in a changing world
The demonstration took place with the unequivocal blessing of then-Yale President Kingman Brewster, TD '41, who remained an outspoken advocate of civil rights throughout his tenure.
His views hearken to those of President Brewster as a social activist, and to a concept of moral leadership that has become gradually obsolete since the rise of conservatism in the late 1970s.
Kingman Brewster, TD '41, Yale University President 1963-77.
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 Guide to the Inventory of Resignation of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records, 1977 (Record Unit 14) : Finding Aid
Yale University, Office of the President, Resignation of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Records (YRU 14) Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
On 17 May 1977 the academic year closed with Kingman Brewster, Jr.'s, resignation from office to become ambassador to the Court of St. James under President Jimmy Carter.
Brewster, Kingman, Jr.,: resignation letter, 1977 May 16
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 A 1 Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster was born in Brazil on April 26, 1980.
Her grandfather is Kingman Brewster, former president of Yale.
Brewster appeared in As The World Turns as the teen-age Nikki Graves, then-unknown daughter of Hal Munson and Linda Graves, from his previous marriage, in July 1995.
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 Hair Tips: Jordana Brewster
Jordana's Brazilian mother, a 1978 Sports Illustrate swimsuit-issue model (Maria Joao), met her American father (Alden Brewster) in London while her two grandfathers were both in England as ambassadors.
Her grandfather, Kingman Brewster served as the president of Yale from 1963 until 1977.
When she was 10, her family moved again to New York where she lived in an apartment on Fifth Avenue, summered in the Hamptons and attended a private girls' school, Sacred Heart, before switching to the Professional Children's School.
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 AllRefer.com - Brewster, Kingman, Jr. (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He was a professor of law at Harvard (1950–60) and president of Yale (1963–77), where as an opponent of the Vietnam War, he skillfully handled student demonstrations during that turbulent period.
Brewster remained in London as the representative of American law firm.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Brewster, Kingman, Jr.
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 Guide to the Inventory of May Day Records, 1970-1972, 1976 : Finding Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kurt Schmoke '71, who later became Baltimore mayor in 1987 and a member of the Yale Corporation in 1989, was the first student in Yale history to address the faculty on behalf of the student body.
The alumni, however, supported Brewster nearly four to one, based on written and telephone feedback.
The Brewster administration decided to open Yale University for shelter, food, day care, and first aid throughout the weekend.
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