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    William Jennings Bryan's 1905-6 world tour

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    This article is a study of the 1905-6 world tour undertaken by William Jennings Bryan and his family. Bryan was one of the major US politicians of his era. Three times a Democratic party presidential nominee (1896, 1900, 1908), he played a prominent role in the various reform crusades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was the leading figure on the populist, agrarian wing of his party. To date, however, historians have paid little attention to his extensive travels and voluminous travel writing, in large part because hostile journalists and historians – chief among them Walter Lippmann, H. L. Mencken, and Richard Hofstadter – succeeded in casting him as an archetype of American parochialism. This study makes us aware of Bryan's published and unpublished correspondence, the memoirs of his daughter Grace, newspaper reports, and cartoons to form a reassessment of Bryan, focusing primarily on his encounters with unfamiliar cultures, and with imperialism in the Philippines, British India, and the Dutch East Indies. In so doing, it places Bryan for the first time in a global and transnational frame, and mounts a broader critique of the rigidly regional and national orientation of the US historiography of populism

    Professor Bryan Harris Remembered: Volez to a Pierce Law Friend

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    Bryan Harris, MA (Oxon), passed away recently in his beloved native England, after a brief illness. His wife Mary, two sons and a daughter survive him. Bryan Harris had a long and distinguished career as an author, educator, barrister, diplomat, publisher and lobbyist. He was a consultant on European Union policies and laws to commercial and professional firms and associations. For almost three decades he was a Member of the Board of Trustees and Adjunct Professor of European Union Law at Pierce Law. Pierce Law President and Dean, John Hutson summed up what many members of the Pierce Law community expressed to me as I prepared this tribute saying, I think of Bryan mostly in single words ... jovial, cheerful, humble, dignified, diplomatic, caring ... Dean Huston shared that Professor Harris will be recognized during the 2004 Commencement

    Mrs. Cameron’s Baby

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    Includes poem by Louis E. Bryan; Mrs. Cameron’s Bab

    Wall-Crossings in Toric Gromov-Witten Theory I: Crepant Examples

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    Let X be a Gorenstein orbifold and let Y be a crepant resolution of X. We state a conjecture relating the genus-zero Gromov--Witten invariants of X to those of Y, which differs in general from the Crepant Resolution Conjectures of Ruan and Bryan--Graber, and prove our conjecture when X = P(1,1,2) and X = P(1,1,1,3). As a consequence, we see that the original form of the Bryan--Graber Conjecture holds for P(1,1,2) but is probably false for P(1,1,1,3). Our methods are based on mirror symmetry for toric orbifolds.Comment: 71 pages, v2: typos corrected and references modified, v3: corrected errors in Proposition 2.9 and in Summary, v4: major revision, exposition unified from a viewpoint of VSHS, many signpostings for the logical structure; the authorship has changed, with Alessio Corti withdrawin

    My Uncle Played the Sax

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    Includes poem by Louis E. Bryan; My Uncle Played the Sa

    Falling Playbill

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    Falling by Deanna Jent An Independent Student Production directed by Gaby DeParis \u2718 Scenic Design: GABY DEPARIS \u2718 Lighting Design & Sound Design: GABY DEPARIS \u2718 Costume Design: TEDDY KIRITSY \u2719 THE CAST Bill - THOMAS EDWARDS Grammy - KATE FITZPATRICK Tami - CAPRIAL HARRIS Lisa - REAGAN QUITTSCHREIBER Josh - BRYAN SABBAGhttps://digitalcommons.providence.edu/falling_pubs/1001/thumbnail.jp

    A Measure of Core Inflation in the UK

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    We develop a measure of core inflation in the UK over the period January1987 - December 1998, following the work of Bryan and Cecchetti (1996),Bryan, Cecchetti and Wiggins (1997) and Roger (1997). Disaggregation is into85 price categories. Given the high kurtosis of the price change distribution over this period, a trimmed mean is a more robust estimator of core inflation than other published measures such as the RPIX widely used in the UK, in particular by the Bank of England when targeting inflation. We discuss the relative advantages of our measure of core inflation, with emphasis on the determination of an optimal trimming point and on the analysis of the products whose price changes are excluded from our measure in each time period. The resulting measure appears well behaved, but differs noticeably from a number of published measures.
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