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	William Julius Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is a significant American sociologist.
		In The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), Wilson was one of the first to enunciate at length the "spatial mismatch" theory for the development of a ghetto underclass.
		Wilson was an original board member of the progressive Century Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Julius_Wilson (234 words)

	Bill W. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilson was born on 26 November 1895 in East Dorset, Vermont to Gilman Barrows Wilson and Emily Griffith.
		Wilson had been promoting niacin as a potential cure for alcoholism, which was agreed to be an "outside issue".
		Wilson died of emphysema and pneumonia on 24 January 1971 in Miami, Florida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Griffith_Wilson (869 words)

	William Griffith Wilson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Griffith Wilson (commonly known as Bill Wilson or "Bill W."), was a co-founder of the self-help group (An international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism) Alcoholics Anonymous.
		Wilson was born on 26 November 1895 in East Dorset, (A state in New England) Vermont.
		Wilson had been promoting (A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract) niacin as a potential cure for alcoholism, which was agreed to be an "outside issue".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_griffith_wilson.htm (509 words)

	William Julius Wilson discusses ghetto joblessness
		Wilson was the opening speaker Sunday at a symposium titled "American Society: Diversity and Consensus," honoring another heavyweight sociologist, Cornell's Robin M. Williams Jr., the Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus.
		Wilson's lecture followed a discussion of Williams' life and contributions by Peter I. Rose, Cornell alumnus and professor of sociology and anthropology at Smith College.
		Wilson believes public policy discussions of welfare reform and family values should be couched in the context of these factors.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/10.24.96/Wilson_lecture.html (663 words)

	Descendants of William Wilson
		Wilson was born circa 1490 at Penrith, Cumberland.
		Mather had no intention of casting ridicule upon prophecy, for he was given to showing his ability in the same way, but his fancy as usual, outran his judgement, and his memory, great as it was, forever calls on intervention to come to the aid of truth.
		John Wilson was born in 1585 at Winsor, England.
	www.jacksonsweb.org /wilson.htm (795 words)

	First Measured Century: Interview: William Julius Wilson
		William Julius Wilson is a University Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
		WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: It's interesting that when people talk about the controversies surrounding the Moynihan Report, they fail to realize that he wrote a speech for President Johnson, which was presented at Howard University, a commencement speech, two months before the Moynihan Report was released.
		WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: Single-parent families, family break-ups in the fl community are problematic because of the impact on children, and that's the main thing.
	www.pbs.org /fmc/interviews/wilson.htm (3368 words)

	William G. Wilson
		WILLIAM G. It might be said with truth that the atmosphere and elements of the Western Kansas prairies have entered into the very existence of William G. Wilson, who was brought to Pawnee County when a child of two years and has lived there ever since.
		William G. Wilson, the only son and child of his parents, was born December 18, 1882, in Will County, Illinois.
		Wilson has not only used profitably the land left him by his father but has extended his domain and has bought three quarter sections, portions of sections 21, 19 and 20 in township 23, range 17.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/w/wilsonwg.html (896 words)

	William Bauchop Wilson
		William Bauchop Wilson, the son of a coal miner, was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on 2nd April, 1862.
		Wilson remained active in the union until he was sacked and fllisted in 1882.
		Wilson, while steadily working to bring the opposing forces together and to re-establish the conference plan, sometimes lost the confidence of some of the more radical of the men he was leading.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAwilsonbeau.htm (2164 words)

	Wilson Family Papers
		William Wilson was also employed as an administrator of landed property, usually for members of the Livingston family, and particularly Henry Livingston (1752/53-1823).
		Wilson's role as one of the first school supervisors in the area is represented by some scant records (41:22), as is his position as a commissioner for the granting of tavern licenses (41:23).
		William H. wrote several letters during his tour of duty on the Lake Champlain frontier during the War of 1812 (18:43, 52; 19:18, 26, 36, 47, 56, 60, 68; 20:16, 18), but these are preoccupied with descriptions of camp life and military "politics" rather than strategy or the social impact of the war.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/UZ/WilsonFm.html (3043 words)

	Blossburg: William Bauchop Wilson: United Mine Workers of America
		It is interesting to the researchers that three of our primary sources, Babson's biography, Wilson's manuscript, and Flashbacks, a brief history by Phyllis Swinsick of the southeastern section of Tioga County, do not overlap in their tellings of the strike of 1899-1900, despite its national and local significance.
		Wilson created all the documents issued for publication to sway and maintain public sympathy to the miners' cause, but he credits Mitchell with the success of the strike, "Through [the Republican National Committee], political pressure was brought to bear upon the financial interests and a settlement arrived at.
		Wilson also argued that corporations are fundamentally associations of capitalists who band together and hire collectively.
	www.blossburg.org /wb_wilson/thestory_4.htm (955 words)

	Previous Illinios Supreme Court Justice William Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Wilson was born on April 27, 1794 in Loudon County, Virginia.
		In 1819, the general assembly elected Wilson to the Illinois Supreme Court to fill the vacancy of William P. Foster, and in 1825, the general assembly elected him the court’s chief justice.
		Wilson returned to the practice of law in Carmi, Illinois, where he died on April 29, 1857.
	www.state.il.us /court/supremecourt/Previous/Bio_WWilson.asp (156 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor - William Julius Wilson - ...
		Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society.
		Wilson (The Truly Disadvantaged) sees a direct link between growing joblessness and what he calls ghetto-related behavior and attitudesfatherless children born out of wedlock, drugs, crime, gang violence, hopelessnessbut unlike those who blame a "culture of poverty," he emphasizes that structural changes can effect a turnaround.
		Wilson is not affraid to tell us what is wrong with our society, he also has a plan for fixing it.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2U81ZBIUE0&isbn=0679724176&itm=1 (753 words)

	William S. Wilson on Andy Warhol
		To amuse guests, Wilson would pull Valerie’s laundry-bag from under her bed, fold the cloth to show the outline of a gun, and explain with a wink that the stiff object was Valerie’s laundry.
		She celebrated horrible anniversaries in her own style, as during her marriage she would leave notes for her husband, and after her marriage she might send him postcards, to remind my father that the day was the anniversary, the 3rd month, or 2nd year, of whatever offense he was guilty of.
		May Wilson still saw Ray frequently, but she and a large constellation of friends had suffered a loss of one of its reliable lights.
	www.warholstars.org /andywarhol/articles/william/wilson.html (2769 words)

	Norwich Native Son, Dr. William R. Wilson Jr.
		Wilson performs delicate procedures on infants and young children with severe heart defects giving countless children an opportunity for healthy normal lives.
		Wilson began performing his advanced heart procedures while serving as the Chief of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Division of the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo.
		Dr. William Wilson is being honored for his noble efforts within the medical field by friends and neighbors who fondly remember the spirited young boy who grew up in Norwich and who are so proud of the caring healer he has become.
	dodd.senate.gov /press/Speeches/106_99/0616.htm (597 words)

	Delta Center for the Arts \| William Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in 1970 in Youngstown, Ohio; the son of William and Frances, Mr.
		Wilson went on to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Youngstown State University in 1993 while building an extensive exhibition record in Northeastern Ohio.
		In 1991, William became part of the inaugural staff at the McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University.
	www.sjdccd.cc.ca.us /div/finearts/faculty_staff/dca/wilson.html (197 words)

	William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Perhaps it was this latter trait in Wilson's conduct, conjoined with our identity of name, and the mere accident of our having entered the school upon the same day, which set afloat the notion that we were brothers, among the senior classes in the academy.
		Wilson's retaliations in kind were many; and there was one form of his practical wit that disturbed me beyond measure.
		Be Wilson what he might, this, at least, was but the veriest of affectation, or of folly.
	www.online-literature.com /poe/47 (6086 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: Der unzuverlässige Erzähler in Edgar Allan Poes `Ligeia` und `William Wilson` - Hausarbeit. ...
		In dieser Zeit geschah etwas, das ihn genügend beeinflußte, um seinen weiteren Lebensweg in kriminelle Bereiche zu lenken: der Erzähler trifft in jener Schule einen anderen, zweiten William Wilson.
		William Wilson would be a more consistent but less interesting story if Poe had not included this detail, which seems calculated to frustrate the very interpretation that the rest of the story encourages.
		Der Erzähler in William Wilson besitzt keine eigene Identität, eifert einem Mitschüler nach, dessen Persönlichkeit er annimmt, und vernichtet sich schließlich selbst, indem er diesen ihn verfolgenden ehemaligen Mitschüler tötet, den er in verschiedenen Personen wiederzuerkennen glaubt.
	hausarbeiten.de /rd/archiv/amikul/amikul-2212001-11494.shtml (7948 words)

	William Wilson Morgan, January 3, 1906—June 21, 1994 \| By Donald E. Osterbrock \| Biographical Memoirs
		WILLIAM W. MORGAN WAS born and raised in the South, but went to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin as a student and spent the rest of his life there.
		His father, William T. Morgan, and his mother, Mary Wilson Morgan, were both home missionaries in the Southern Methodist Church, who went from town to town to spread the Good News.
		Morgan was active in the Williams Bay Congregational Church and, particularly in the years after his official retirement, occasionally gave talks on the universe in lieu of sermons.
	www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/wmorgan.html (6283 words)

	William Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Wilson is the name given to the narrator of Poe's short story.
		William Wilson, a young student in a "prison-like" school, describes the school house and his experiences there with the typical haunting gloom of a Poe story.
		The narrator grabs the William Wilson from the "school-boy days,--the namesake, the companion, the rival" and violently stabs him to death.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/poeperplex/wilson.htm (395 words)

	In Memory of William Henry Wilson
		Policeman Wilson and another officer were sent to the scene of an accident at Huger and Meeting Streets where a South Carolina Power Company truck had collided with a car driven by an intoxicated male.
		The other officer remained on scene, while Policeman Wilson was to pilot a taxicab carrying the injured men to the hospital.
		Policeman Wilson had been with the department for less than two years and is survived by his wife, four children, parents, three sisters and a brother.
	www.scfop.org /heroesi.asp?kodid=17 (313 words)

	KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With a compassionate yet critical eye, William Scott Wilson delves into the workings of Musashi's mind as the iconoclastic samurai wrestled with philosophical and spiritual ideas that are as relevant today as they were in his times.
		WILLIAM SCOTT WILSON was born in 1944 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
		Wilson's other translations include The Book of Five Rings, The Life-Giving Sword, The Unfettered Mind, the Eiji Yoshikawa novel Taiko, and Ideals of the Samurai, which has been used as a college textbook on Japanese history and thought.
	www.kodansha-intl.com /books/html/en/477002942X.html (1519 words)

	Poe, Edgar Allan: William Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the first William Wilson was aggressive, witty, and imperious, the double presented himself as quiet, gentle and wise--but unthreatened.
		In this tale of twin-selves, the surviving William Wilson represents man-without-morality.
		In "William Wilson" the double is a projection of the normal human self (conscience) that, in this case, is systematically rejected and eventually destroyed.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/poe11931-des-.html (332 words)

	William Wilson, Rev War Soldier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Wilson, my g-g-g-g-grandfather, was born May 2, 1762, probably in Kent County, Maryland.
		William and Sarah had a son, Robert Hardcastle Wilson, who was born in 1818.
		William's widow Sarah Wilson applied for and was granted a widow's pension on August 20, 1853 (Archive file W2303).
	pages.prodigy.net /darrah/revwill.htm (346 words)

	GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - WILLIAM A. WILSON PAPERS: COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
		Wilson's concern for education is also evident in his service as a member of the California Post Secondary Education Commission.
		Wilson's civic activities include serving as a member of the board of trustees of St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California.
		The William A. Wilson papers are organized into 10 series of files, which are summarized in the Synopsis section.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/cl148.htm (1241 words)

	Trafford Publishing: William Wilson: Pioneer Entrepreneur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilson's important political career early in B.C. is also revealed for the first time.
		William Wilson came to Victoria during the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1862 and opened a clothing store.
		William Wilson's death received front-page coverage in the Victoria newspapers.
	www.trafford.com /robots/01-0497.html (709 words)

	William Julius Wilson
		While Wilson takes great pains to articulate the importance of race on urban poverty, his studies highlight the devastating effects of increased joblessness.
		For Wilson, ghetto pathologies are the result of jobless poverty, not the cause of it.
		In June, Wilson, newly arrived at Harvard after 24 years at the University of Chicago with its tradition of urban social research, was named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/1996/09/early.html (1834 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Dr. William Julius Wilson -- Nov. 29, 1996
		David Gergen engages Dr. Wilson in a dialogue about his research and his ideas for lifting the inner city poor out of poverty.
		The same shifts in the economy that make it difficult for all Americans to maintain their standard of living are hurting the inner city poor, Wilson says in his book, just at a much greater extent.
		Wilson is a proponent of work programs modeled after Depression-era projects that offered jobs to anyone who needed one.
	www1.pbs.org /newshour/forum/november96/wilson_11-29.html (377 words)

	Scoop: William Fisher: Charlie Wilson’s War
		To help make his case, Wilson exploited one of the decade's scandals, the Iran-contra affair, arguing that Democrats who were voting to cut off funding for the contras in Nicaragua could demonstrate their willingness to stand up to the Soviet empire by approving more money for the Afghan fighters.
		Until Wilson’s retirement from the House in 1996, he enjoyed a reputation as a relentless womanizer, perpetual partier, borderline drunk, and general rouÃ©.
		Wilson's War succeeded in arming the very people responsible for the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001, and who ended up shooting at U.S. and Coalition troops.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0507/S00071.htm (1397 words)

	William Henry Wilson (1935- ) Papers (KC046)
		William Henry Wilson was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on November 3, 1935.
		From 1958-1960 Wilson was an instructor at the University of Missouri.
		From 1963-1967 Wilson taught at the University of Alaska, advancing from Assistant to Associate Professor.
	www.umkc.edu /WHMCKC/Collections/IKC046.HTM (301 words)

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		William Adjete "Fred" WILSON was born in France in 1952 to a French mother and a Togolese father (West Africa).
		In 1994, he had a three-months road tour of the Southwest states, visiting numerous natural parks, which resulted in a large series of pastels that he exhibited in Paris in 1994 and San Francisco in 1995.
		Illustrations by Wilson are in the "New Yorker" magazine as well as university publications connected with Africa and French-African art and literature.
	www.askart.com /artist/W/william_a_wilson.asp?ID=114068 (326 words)

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