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| | Mary Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh President of Ireland on December 3, 1990. | | | Robinson served as Reid Professor of Law in the University, as well as being one of its three elected senators in Seanad Éireann for twenty years. | | | Mary Terese Winifred Robinson (Irish name Máire Mhic Róibín; born 21 May 1944) was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinson
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| | Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800) |
| | Mary was briefly sent to another school, but returned home when her father failed to pay his expected remittence. | | | Mary returned to the theatre in hopes of supporting her family by acting. | | | Mary was sent to a finishing school in Oxford St., Marylebone, run by a Mrs. |
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/robinson/biography.html
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| | Former Irish President Mary Robinson Named 1998 Commencement Speaker |
| | Mary Robinson, United Nations high commissioner for human rights and former president of the Republic of Ireland, is scheduled to be the speaker at the Afternoon Exercises at the University's 347th Commencement, on Thursday, June 4. | | | Robinson, who was Ireland's first female head of state, has strong ties to Harvard, having earned an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/04.09/FormerIrishPres.html
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| | Wheaton College: Commencement/Reunion: Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson to address graduates |
| | Robinson was the first woman elected president of Ireland, an office she held from 1990-1997. | | | Robinson also holds law degrees from the King's Inns in Dublin and from Harvard University School of Law. | | | As a practicing lawyer in Dublin, Robinson argued landmark cases, including her successful fight for the right of Irish women to contraception in the 1970s. |
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http://www.wheatonma.edu/CR/cr2004/commencement/robinson.html
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| | Mary Robinson Biography |
| | Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh president of Ireland. | | | Robinson was appointed Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law at Trinity College, where she also served as lecturer in European community law. | | | Born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland on May 21, 1944, Mary Robinson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she received a Master of Arts degree in 1970. |
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http://www.fulbright.org/prize/1999/bio-rob.htm
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| | Mary Robinson -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Robinson was educated at Trinity College and King's Inns in Dublin and at Harvard University in the United States. | | | In 1997 Mary McAleese became the eighth president of Ireland. | | | Appointed by the secretary-general in a regular rotation of geographic regions and approved by the General Assembly, the UNHCHR serves a fixed term of four years with the possibility of renewal for an additional four-year term. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9126239?tocId=9126239
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| | robinson, mary |
| | Mary Robinson was born in Bristol on 27 November 1858, one of five children born to John Darby and Mary Seys. | | | Thomas Robinson, a heavy drinker and gambler, was sentenced to prison for debt in 1775, not long after the birth of daughter Maria Elizabeth in November 1774. | | | She died on the 26th of December of that year of a pulmonary edema, and was buried in the churchyard at Old Windsor. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/pcraddoc/chancey.htm
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| | village voice > news > The Education of Mary Robinson by Kareem Fahim |
| | Robinson has refused to comment on whether American criticism prompted her decision to leave. | | | Her appointment to the UN post had strong U.S. backing; President Clinton called her a "splendid choice" and pledged his administration's full cooperation with her mandate. | | | Despite Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's contention that his government has "nothing to hide," Israeli diplomats told the U.S. this week that the high commissioner could not participate in a UN fact-finding mission to the region. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0217/fahim.php
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| | Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002) |
| | Robinson also holds law degrees from the King's Inns in Dublin and from Harvard University. | | | She also served as a member of the International Commission of Jurists (1987-1990) and of the Advisory Commission of Inter-Rights (1984-1990). | | | Born on 21 May 1944 in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, Mrs. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/html/hchr/unhc.htm
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| | Mary Robinson |
| | Mary Robinson was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1944. | | | The daughter of two medical doctors, her family heritage was a mix of Catholics and Protestants who had variously been rebels against and loyal servants of the crown. | | | 2005 Architects of Peace Award Citation for Mary Robinson |
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http://www.scu.edu/ethics/architects-of-peace/Robinson/homepage.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Mary Robinson: Human rights champion |
| | At 25, Mary Robinson became Ireland's youngest professor of law on her appointment to Trinity College in 1969. | | | After her 1990 inauguration as the seventh president of Ireland, Mrs Robinson used the office to draw attention to global crises. | | | She became the first head of state to visit famine-stricken Somalia in 1992, and the first to go to Rwanda after the genocide. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1680695.stm
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| | Salon Directory |
| | Robinson became the second United Nations high commissioner for human rights in June 1997 after resigning as president of Ireland. | | | Before Robinson, Ireland's presidency was a ceremonial office, whose holder was expected to do little more than shake hands with VIPs and open schools and hospitals. | | | Recently, she was in New York to report to the Security Council on the massacres and the human rights situation in the Congo and was as forthright as ever before giving up what she calls "the day job." |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/people/interview/2002/07/26/mary_robinson/index.html
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| | Mary Robinson coverage |
| | Robinson served as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights between 1997 and 2002, following seven years as the president of Ireland. | | | The Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship was established by Henry and Nancy Horton Bartels '48 in 1985 to bring prominent international leaders to Cornell. | | | She was both the first head of state to visit Rwanda in 1994 and the first to travel to Somalia in 1992. |
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/http://www.n/Chronicle/03/4.24.03/Robinson_cover.html
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| | America Forced Me Out, Says Robinson |
| | Ms Robinson, 57, a former Irish president and only the second person to hold the post of high commissioner for human rights, has been a vocal critic of the US since September 11 - not least over Washington's decision against granting prisoner of war status to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. | | | Her replacement, Sergio Vieira de Mello, a career UN diplomat with a background in humanitarian relief and peacekeeping, seems certain to adopt a less outspoken style. | | | Tension between the commissioner and the Bush administration pre-date military action in Afghanistan, and turned particularly rancorous over the world conference against racism in Durban, South Africa, which almost collapsed under the weight of a Syrian-led campaign for delegates to declare Israel a racist state. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0731-01.htm
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| | The Compelling Conversation Series Presents Mary Robinson |
| | Robinson was the youngest person to become a professor of law at Trinity College, Dublin; she also holds a law degree from Harvard University. | | | Former President of Ireland and Renowned Human Rights Activist BOSTON, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Bunker Hill Community College invites you to join us for a Compelling Conversation with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland (1990-1997). | | | Bunker Hill Community College's "Compelling Conversation" with Mary Robinson is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-07-2005/0003154741&EDATE=
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| | Mary Robinson Houses |
| | Edwin Z. Robinson died on November 20, 1907, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. | | | Perhaps they had been born into slavery; perhaps not. | | | Mary W. Robinson was born about 1816 in Schenectady, New York. |
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http://www.pacny.net/freedom_trail/Robinson.htm
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| | Degree of Dishonour at McGill [Mary Robinson honorary Phd] |
| | Ireland even held the presidency of the European Union for the second half of 1996. | | | She was also the first Head of State to visit the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia…." | | | For seven years, she served as president of Ireland. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158160/posts
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| | Mary Robinson (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, during one of his brief returns to the family, Captain Darby had the school closed (which he was entitled to do by English law). | | | Mary Darby Robinson was born to a sea captain and his wife allegedly on 27 November 1758 according to her memoirs, but 1756 according to recently published research. | | | Mary was then just 16 when they married in April 1774. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinson_(poet)
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| | Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, A Human Rights Voice That Will Not Be Silenced |
| | Robinson’s initial appointment in 1997 as only the second high commissioner for human rights should have known that she would seek nothing less than the enforcement of international human rights laws. | | | Mary Robinson was outspoken in her criticism of U.S. efforts to undermine the International Criminal Court, its lack of regard for civilian casualties in the war waged in Afghanistan, and its treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. | | | This notion of the “indivisibility” and “interdependence” of human rights is as old as the Universal Declaration, but it took Mary Robinson using her office and traveling to 60 countries to call peoples’ and governments’ attention to it. |
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http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb04/indexone.html
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| | ZOA 1-28-04: ZOA Criticizes Columbia U.'s Hiring Of Another Anti-Israel Extremist For Its Faculty |
| | Mary Robinson, the former United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, has been hired to teach in Columbia's Department of International and Public Affairs and to serve as a senior research scholar at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute. | | | ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: "The hiring of Mary Robinson sends a message that those who hate the Jewish State are welcome at Columbia. | | | NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has protested Columbia University's decision to hire yet another anti-Israel extremist for its faculty. |
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http://www.zoa.org/pressrel2004/20040128a.htm
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| | Memoirs of Mary Robinson |
| | Her daughter Mary Elizabeth (referred to in the memoirs as 'Maria') continued and published the memoirs. | | | She left a draft of her memoirs to her daughter, with a request that it be published. | | | The draft covered her childhood, marriage, early writing, and career in the theatre. |
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/robinson/memoirs/memoirs.html
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| | Canadian Jewish News |
| | In 2004, she went to New York to join Columbia University law school’s Human Rights Institute, and she has received honorary degrees at McGill University and elsewhere. | | | Mary Robinson, formerly the president of Ireland and then United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was the first down this path. | | | But, like Robinson, Patten is now trying to rehabilitate his reputation after leaving the EU. |
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http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=7845
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| | TIME.com: Mary Robinson -- Sep. 13, 1999 -- Page 1 |
| | Since her appointment as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Robinson has been a relentless advocate for the most vulnerable of her fellow citizens. | | | Two years into her tenure as the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson is reevaluating herself. | | | With the same forthrightness that helped her imbue with authority the largely ceremonial role of President of the Irish Republic, she has remade the U.N. job in her own image. |
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,30999,00.html
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| | Áras an Uachtaráin |
| | President Mary McAleese welcomes the Government’s decision to approve in principle a proposal that Irish born Irish citizens living abroad should qualify for this bounty. | | | It is currently set at 2,540 and up to now has only been paid to centenarians resident in the State. | | | Want to make a difference in your community? |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Columbia U's Newest Anti-Zionist by Jacob Gershman |
| | Robinson, 59, who started this month as a professor of practice in the Department of International and Public Affairs, is drawing criticism from Jewish and pro-Israel groups,which see her appointment as another example of anti-Israel bias on the Columbia faculty. | | | Mary Robinson, an architect of the U.N. Durban human rights conference in 2001 that was boycotted by Secretary of State Powell because the Bush administration deemed it too hostile to Israel, has been hired as a professor by Columbia University. | | | Robinson served as the U.N.'s human rights commissioner from 1997 to 2002. In 2002, Sergio Vieria de Mello replaced Ms. |
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http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12011
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| | Bio Notes: Mary Robinson |
| | This is the sensationalist version of the story. | | | As proof of Mary's return to the limelight, 2004 saw the publication of two new biographies, with a third one following early in 2005). | | | Mary Robinson was destined in her brief life to become an actress, a poet, a novelist and one of the most famous courtesans of Georgian London. |
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http://home.golden.net/~marg/bansite/friends/robinson.html
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| | Life by Mary Robinson |
| | Marys mother moved the family to London, and she set up a boarding school to support them. | | | She was the third of five children born to a ships Captain who eventually left when she was seven to set up a whaling station in Canada. | | | When she was only fifteen however, her father (now estranged), but still legally in control of the family, forced her mother to close the school; and Mary moved to a finishing school in Oxford, where she was quickly spotted as something of a talent and offered work on the stage. |
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http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/poems/robinson1.asp
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| | Miles Durrance on Mary Robinson's The Haunted Beach |
| | Mary's previously-established scandalous reputation with the English public made her a perfect vehicle for the aims of the Post's editor, Daniel Stuart, to market his poets as "fashionable people in order to create more interest in his publication, and thereby create profits by greater public demand for copies of the Post (Pascoe 258-259). | | | (Yes, Mary had read and was inspired by Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, even though he was much less acquainted with her and received her work more frigidly than his friend Coleridge [Wu 182]). | | | The scandalous Mary Robinson's work fell out of favor with the onset of the Victorian era, but the sensational aspects of her life and career have recently rekindled the interest of critics in the life and output of this multi-faceted talent (Chancey Website bio.). |
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http://www.clayfox.com/ashessparks/reports/miles.html
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| | Online NewsHour: Mary Robinson -- October 7, 1999 |
| | MARY ROBINSON: Certainly the situation in Kosovo was different in that there was an existing international criminal tribunal, so it is possible for the investigators to be there immediately. | | | MARY ROBINSON: At the moment I'm appointing distinguished, eminent individuals. | | | That intensified at the time of registration when the people of East Timor registered for the vote and it seemed to be appreciated the a lot of them were going to vote, were going to vote for independence so the violence became worse. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/robinson_10-7.html
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| | BBC NEWS Have Your Say Women's rights: Ask Mary Robinson |
| | To Mary Robinson: Ireland has had two female presidents, including yourself, and a female Tanaiste (deputy prime minister). | | | I wish the US could say that we had a former female president. | | | As former President of Ireland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and now director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, she has campaigned for the improvement of women's rights, particularly in developing countries. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4290028.stm
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| | Mary Robinson |
| | Mary Robinson is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of South Carolina where she teaches printmaking. | | | She received her B.F.A. in 1990 in Studio Arts at the University of Colorado, and a M.A. in 1994 in Art History from the University of Wisconsin. | | | This sense of movement and change contrasts with a more fixed or static observation of a vista, the conventional viewpoint of most landscape painting. |
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http://www.cityartonline.com/ARTISTS/ROBINSON.htm
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| | MARY ROBINSON - LoveToKnow Article on MARY ROBINSON |
| | In 1774 she was married to Thomas Robinson, a clerk in London, where her remarkable beauty brought her many attentions; and when, after two years of fashionable life, her husband was arrested for debt, she shared his imprisonment. | | | She had been a precocious child, encouraged to write verses, and while in King's Bench prison she completed the collection published in two volumes in 1775. | | | Owing to the hostility of public opinion, she feared to return to the stage, but she published some more volumes of her writings. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/R/RO/ROBINSON_MARY.htm
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| | Romantic Audience Project :: Mary Robinson |
| | April 1774 married to Thomas Robinson, an articled clerk | | | This is a great objection to the former title, particularly as they are both printed at the same press and Longman is the publisher of both the works." | | | Wordsworth copied the metre of Robinson's The Haunted Beach in his poem The Solitude of Binnorie; Coleridge points this out in his letter to the Morning Post where he addresses Wordsworth's borrowed metre |
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http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668/space/Mary+Robinson
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| | BBC - BBC Four Profile - Mary Robinson |
| | Mary Robinson is the former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. | | | Mary Robinson spoke to BBC Four from Geneva on 6 September 2002 about leaving the UN and her plans for the future. | | | BBC Four: Do you think your successor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, will be inheriting a stronger position than when you joined the UN in 1997? |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/mary_robinson.shtml
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| | Mary Robinson Reynolds The MasterMinding Maven™, Personal Coach, Consultant, Author |
| | This system is a culmination of Mary’s successful life’s work in: Family, Love, Health, Business with balance and financial independence. | | | This is an eAudio of the 90 minute live TeleClass and MasterMinding Coaching Session with Mary. | | | You can MasterMind for your heart’s greatest desires: your dream, your marriage, your children, your business, your health and weight. |
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| | Oxfam America: Mary Robinson Says US Reform of Cotton Subsidies Is a Human Rights Issue |
| | Bamako, December 3, 2004—Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has linked US reform of its agricultural subsidies regime to the human rights of African farmers at a press conference in Bamako today. | | | Oxfam America: Mary Robinson Says US Reform of Cotton Subsidies Is a Human Rights Issue | | | Mary Robinson Says US Reform of Cotton Subsidies Is a Human Rights Issue |
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http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/press_releases/press_release.2004-12-03.6980194090
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| | Coleridge, Mary (Perdita) Robinson, and "Kubla Khan" |
| | One difficulty is that on 13 May 1796, only a few months after the supposed supper parties with Mrs Robinson and Godwin, Coleridge wrote to his friend John Thelwall, “I was once and only once in company with Godwin”. | | | At the time when he is supposed to have met Mrs Robinson at her home in London, Coleridge was living in Bristol with his pregnant wife, who he feared (needlessly, as it turned out) would miscarry. | | | The consensus has been that Coleridge and Mary Robinson became acquainted while Coleridge was in |
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http://www.friendsofcoleridge.com/KublaKhan.htm
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| | Joho the Blog: [Accountability] Mary Robinson |
| | First speaker: Mary Robinson whose resume is too long and astounding to capture here, except maybe to say she's a former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative and honorary president of Oxfam. | | | She says 191 countries have agreed to support the rights of children, although not all live up to it. | | | Posted by D. Weinberger at October 3, 2005 06:28 AM TrackBack |
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http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004524.html
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| | Mary Robinson of Dickson Realty |
| | The Real Estate business has been a way of life for Mary since receiving her California Real Estate license in 1963, Nevada Real Estate License in 1977, and her Brokers License in 1982. | | | Spring of 1994 Dickson Realty moved their entire staff and associates to their new office building at Caughlin Ranch. | | | No newcomer to the Reno/Sparks real estate market, Mary moved to Reno, Nevada in 1971 and offers many years of experience specializing in the residential real estate market throughout Reno/Sparks and Washoe County communities. |
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http://www.nevadanet.com/realestate/bios/000913.BIO.html
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| | Realizing Rights - Home |
| | of this volume co-edited by Philip Alston and Mary Robinson based on the March 2004 conference held in New York. | | | (General) Mary Robinson will give the 2006 Annual Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | | | Sommer Hall, E2014 Johns Hopkins University 615 N. Wolfe Street, W1600 Baltimore, MD 21205-2179 Registration is required... |
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| | A. Mary F. Robinson |
| | In due time appeared The Crowned Hippolytus: and other Poems, and Miss Robinson's position was confirmed, the volume exhibiting very marked increase of strength, though it was not without some markedly tentative efforts. | | | Personally, I do not think this volume of verse has yet been done full justice to. | | | In 1884 was published The New Arcadia, a book that deservedly attracted very considerable attention; though some of Miss Robinson's most discriminating friends doubted the advisability of her attempting the reform of the condition of the agricultural classes by means of poetic special pleading. |
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http://www.sonnets.org/robinsona.htm
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| | 2010 - The Challenges to Global Security: Mary ROBINSON |
| | Jane's Defence Weekly assembled a list of heads-of-state, UN officials, and chiefs of major non-governmental organisations and asked one broad question: What is the greatest challenge to global security in the next five to 10 years? | | | 2010 - The Challenges to Global Security: Mary ROBINSON | | | Navy League 2006: DHS plots maritime domain awareness roadmap |
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http://www.janes.com/defence/news/2010/991222_f_robinson.shtml
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| | Mary Robinson Reynolds The MasterMinding Maven™ - Articles |
| | Learn more about Mary's MasterMinding system and print out her "7 Steps to MasterMind Connection™" FREE at http://www.maryrobinsonreynolds.com/7steps.htm | | | Mary shows you how to defuse any failure mechanism and to fuel achievement easier than ever before. | | | "Mary, you just don't realize that my situation is different and more impossible than most impossible situations you've EVER dealt with. |
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