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	Robert Wright, 2LT, Army, Elk City OK, 02Jan70 15W121 - The Virtual Wall®
		Lieutenant Wright immediately began adjusting artillery fire on the attackers, repeatedly exposing himself to the storm of incoming fire as he attempted to determine the enemy's exact positions.
		Lieutenant Wright then led the sappers in a running chase over forty meters away from the radioman before he was mortally felled by their fire.
		Second Lieutenant Wright's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty, at the cost of his life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
	www.virtualwall.org /dw/WrightRC01a.htm (878 words)

	Aetna: African American History Calendar: 1989: Richard Robert Wright
		Major Richard Robert Wright, a pioneer in education, prominent banker and political activist, devoted his life to the advancement of fls.
		Wright later graduated as valedictorian of his 1876 Atlanta University class.
		Wright later helped erect a statue in Pennsylvania honoring fl soldiers killed in all wars.
	www.aetna.com /foundation/aahcalendar/2006/1989wright.html (370 words)

	General Electric : Our Company : Executive Bios & Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wright is also vice chairman of the board, executive officer and a member of the Corporate Executive Office of the General Electric Company.
		Wright is on the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and the Museum of Television and Radio, and serves on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Corporation and the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
		Wright is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he received his LL.B. degree.
	www.ge.com /en/company/companyinfo/executivebios/eb_wright.htm (787 words)

	Wright & L'Estrange Lawyers - Robert C. Wright
		Wright graduated from Occidental College in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and from Hastings College of the Law in 1971 with a Juris Doctor degree.
		Wright is engaged in civil trial practice in federal and state courts.
		Wright is a member of the American Law Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law.
	www.wllawsd.com /robertwright.html (218 words)

	Is Robert Wright a Marxist? Mickey Kaus
		Wright denounces what he calls the "equilibrium fallacy," the notion that human society is stable until some external shock comes along to change it.
		Wright's technological determinism is softened by the crucial realization that social organization is itself a "technology"--an agricultural chiefdom has a more complex, productive division of labor than a hunter-gatherer band, quite apart from whether it has better tools.
		In this sense, Wright is not a Marxist; Marx is a Wrightist.
	www.slate.com /id/1004890 (1246 words)

	ISCID - Robert Wright Chat - Nonzero
		Wright, a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of _Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny_ and _The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life_, both published by Vintage Books.
		Wright's first book, _Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information_, was published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
		Wright's thoughts on whether a practical ethics or meta-ethics could be derived from this thinking and applied to goals and decision-making in human relations and politics.
	www.iscid.org /robert-wright-chat.php (2098 words)

	MWP: Richard Wright (1908-1960)
		One of America’s greatest fl writers, Richard Wright was also among the first African American writers to achieve literary fame and fortune, but his reputation has less to do with the color of his skin than with the superb quality of his work.
		Wright is seen as a seminal figure in the fl revolution that followed his earliest novels.
		Wright’s development was marked by an ability to respond to the currents of the social and intellectual history of his time.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard (1126 words)

	"The Wright Stuff" by John B. Judis
		Wright's work is an attempt to return to Hegel and Marx's progressive theory of history by drawing upon a dissident school of cultural anthropology and the work of evolutionary biologists, like Richard Dawkins, who have tried to extend the principles of natural selection to history.
		Wright borrows from Dawkins in The Selfish Gene the concept of a meme---a unit of knowledge analogous to a gene---whose diffusion depends on its utility to human survival.
		Wright would deny it, but his speculations are a variation on William Paley's argument that if history, like the watch, has a design and structure, then someone must have designed and structured it.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /books/2000/0004.judis.html (1091 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Robert Wright
		Robert Wright, who has died aged 90, was a composer and lyricist noted for musical adaptation.
		Wright was born in Daytona Beach, Florida and met Forrest at Miami senior high school.
		Wright and Forrest used Borodin's uncompleted Prince Igor to animate intrigue and romance amid the bazaars.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1546612,00.html?gusrc=rss (631 words)

	WorldNetDaily: FBI agent says bureau muzzling him
		One of Wright's claims is that the FBI allowed a Muslim agent to hinder an investigation due to religious loyalties and sensitivities, reflecting a pattern of conduct by the agency that has harmed the nation's security.
		Wright claims his investigation in 1999 of Yassin Qadi — later named by the government as a key financial backer of al-Qaida — ran into a roadblock when Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz refused to wear a wire to record a meeting with a Muslim businessman connected to Qadi.
		Wright gave his version of events in an affidavit filed in a civil rights lawsuit Abdel-Hafiz brought against him, which claimed discrimination on the basis of national origin and religion.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31392 (1131 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Robert Wright (1560-1643)
		Robert Wright was born, of humble parentage, at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1560.
		Wright was reputed to be of covetous disposition.
		In December, Wright joined eleven of the bishops in signing a letter to the King in which they complained of intimidation while on their way to the House of Lords, and protested against the transaction of business in their absence.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/rwright.html (709 words)

	Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic
		In six substantive, loosely-connected chapters, Wright provides finance-based interpretations of important events, from the underlying causes of the American Revolution to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, from economic growth to the role of banks and urban finance in the election of 1800, from dueling to the subjugation of women.
		Wright offers a number of insightful, interesting, and potentially testable hypotheses at several turns, but relies on anecdotes, commentaries and reflections from contemporary observers instead of marshaling much in the way of quantitative data to support his hypotheses.
		In the second essay Wright contends that the framers of the Constitution understood the fundamental principal-agent problems inherent in representative democracies and constructed a system that largely aligned the interests of the electorate and the elected.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0667.shtml (1480 words)

	Richard Wright
		In 1932 Wright joined the Communist Party and was an executive secretary of the local John Reed Club of leftist writers and authors of Chicago.
		Wright was named in the late 1930s to the literature editorial board of New Masses, and was denounced by the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities investigating the Federal Writers' Project.
		Wright was an avid filmgoer and he explained that "I wanted the reader to feel that Bigger's story was happening now, like play upon a stage or a movie..." In the first film version, directed by Pierre Chenal, and adapted by Chenal and Wright, the author himself acted the role of Bigger Thomas.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rwright.htm (1925 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Jennifer Van Bergen \| Robert Wright's Rights
		Wright spoke out at a press conference in Washington, D.C. in May. He accused the FBI of intentionally thwarting investigations of known terrorists.
		In addition to thwarting Wright's attempts to break up terrorist organizations in the U.S. (if Wright is correct), the FBI has now told Wright that he cannot publish the book he has written about what he perceives as "Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission" (as his manuscript is titled).
		Robert Wright dutifully submitted his manuscript to the FBI for review, but it avails him nothing.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/08.03B.jvb.wright.htm (931 words)

	Robert Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For the early 19th century governor and congressman from Maryland, see Robert Wright (politician).
		For the Lord Chief Justice of England from 1687 to 1688, see Robert Wright (judge).
		For the FBI agent and critic of FBI counterterrorist activities, see Robert Wright, Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Wright (174 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wright also dismisses gloomy talk of the stagnation of Ming and Qing China, the fall of the Mughal Empire, and the technological and organizational stasis of the Ottoman Empire by arguing that the key unit is not Europe vs. Asia but is instead Eurasia.
		Wright does a good job of theorizing on the driving forces of cultural and biological evolution, claiming that both are driven by intrinsic cost-benefit analyses that are basically enforced by that brute of the biological world: survival.
		Wright acknowledges the forces of irrationality in the decisions of heads of state and the possession of peoples of weapons capable of wiping out an entire city or state in one fell swoop, he fails to tie these two critical pieces of information together.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679758941?v=glance (5023 words)

	ISCID - Robert Wright
		Robert Wright, a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny and The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, both published by Vintage Books.
		Wright's first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, was published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
		Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity’s three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future.
	www.iscid.org /robert-wright.php (352 words)

	Wright, Robert C.
		Robert C. Wright succeeded the legendary Grant Tinker as president of NBC in 1986 when "the peacock network" was acquired by General Electric for $6.3 billion.
		And like mentor Welch, Wright came from a Catholic household (from suburban Long Island), was the son of an engineer, had not gone to an Ivy league college, was devoted to GE, and was no fan of television.
		Wright had entered the GE corporate ladder as a staff attorney, but quickly moved to the decision-making side, running GE's plastic sales division (1978-1980), then as the head of the housewares and audio equipment division (1983-1984), and promoted to the presidency of GE Financial Services (1984-86).
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/wrightrober/wrightrober.htm (519 words)

	James Wright (1927-1980)
		Another strategy might be to consider Wright as a social poet addressing American society in the 1960s and 1970s.
		A typical theme explored in Wright's poetry is rural America versus the modern urban America of the middle class with its wealth, political power, and control over the oppressed.
		Both a theme and a technique is Wright's movement inward and within the self, often through a rural or small-town setting.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wrightjs.html (867 words)

	Fanny Wright
		In the journal Wright advocated socialism, the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, free secular education, birth control, changes in the marriage and divorce laws.
		Frances Wright, little known to the present generation, was really the spiritual helpmate and better half of the Owens, in the socialistic revival of 1826.
		To this heroic woman, who left ease, elegance, a high social circle of rich culture, and with true self-abnegation gave her life, in the country of her adoption, to the teachings of her highest idea of truth, it is fitting that we pay a tribute of just, though late, respect.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REwright.htm (1843 words)

	Robert Wright: Nonzero Sumness as the Arc of History
		Robert Wright, a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (2000) and The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life (1994), both published by Vintage Books.
		Wright's lecture was one of the few non-PowerPoint presentations at the conference.
		Wright ad-libbed often spontaneously, had a wry-sense of humor, and had the audience laughing continuously.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Stanford/RobertWright.html (3305 words)

	Look Who's Stalking
		If readers are confused by Wright's single-minded fury -- after all, his attacks seem largely unprovoked, and Gould's theories about evolution are really tangential to Wright's central thesis that human intelligence is on the verge of melding into "one great global mind" -- Gould, too, is utterly nonplussed.
		Wright pointedly accused Gould of intellectual dishonesty, "putting words in Darwin's mouth," and tailoring his own scientific views to fit his socialist politics: Punctuated equilibrium -- Gould's famous reinterpretation of Darwinist theory as a series of violent fits and starts, not a gradual process -- was wrongheadedly informed by a "Marxist" view of human history.
		Wright was trying to goad and prod Gould into responding -- and at the same time get himself accepted as one of the big boys.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/columns/culturebusiness/1931 (1010 words)

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		Wright added that the weapons purchased were used in Hamas assaults and suicide attacks on Israeli citizens.
		WRIGHT'S WAS NOT THE ONLY PROBE of Middle Eastern links to terrorists and acts of terror in the U.S. Unbeknownst to Wright, an investigation of Salah and his alleged involvement in training camps was undertaken by the House of Representatives Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.
		Wright chronicled his allegations against the Bureau in a complaint filed with the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Justice.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=37125 (2024 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wright's aim is to knit together this theory with anthropology, zoology, biology, and history, plus a dash of chaos theory, and thus attest that "non-zero sum altruism" is the natural inclination of humankind.
		Wright argues that a coolly specific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future.
		Robert Wright is also, somehow, the author of 'Non-Zero' which purports to tell the story of cultural evolution in the context of game theory.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349113343 (1421 words)

	The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
		Wright focuses throughout on the perpetual demand for improved liquidity.
		The Bank of North America, the brainchild of Robert Morris, the famous treasurer of the confederation government, became the prime model for all subsequent commercial banks.
		I also wish Wright had cited the public loan offices created by the colonial legislatures as the prime forerunners of the modern commercial bank.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0414.shtml (1505 words)

	The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
		Wright examines how Darwin's Victorian veneer can be interpreted as developing via the almost unbelievably complex interaction of our various (and sometimes conflicting) genetic imperatives.
		In the end, Robert Wright's The Moral Animal belongs in the same club as Carl Sagan's Cosmos, or even Darwin's own The Voyage of the Beagle, as one of the classics of popular science.
		Wright doesn't pretend he has all the answers (indeed, much of what he offers is couched in tentative terms, with caveats ad nauseum).
	www.scifidimensions.com /Mar04/moralanimal.htm (877 words)

	disinformation \| robert wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wright's writing credentials are impeccable: he is a Contributing Editor at 'The New Republic', 'Time', and 'Slate'.
		Wright explores the possible future of humanity as a Superorganism, a controversial idea that has appeared in different forms as the Gaia hypothesis (James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis), Overmind (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Terence McKenna), and Global Brain (Howard Bloom).
		This 'Salon' magazine interview with Robert Wright (April 4th, 2000) by David Bowman covers his public feud with Stephen J. Gould, why the Khmer Rouge is doomed, and the evolutionary role of evil.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id351/pg1 (1074 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Wright, Robert , and George "Chet" Forrest
		Wright and Forrest had already written songs or lyrics for several films when they were called upon to provide music for Robert Z. Leonard's Maytime (1937), which starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
		When their MGM contract ended, Wright and Forrest, who had already done some theater work, gave up writing for movies to devote themselves to the musical stage.
		Wright and Forrest are probably best-known for the score of Kismet (book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis), which was based on the music of Alexander Borodin and won a Tony Award in 1953.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/wright_r.html (734 words)

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