George W. Hill, Class of 1859

W. J. Hill, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

Clevedon has lost a good friend and skilful practitioner by the death of Walter Hill on June 2nd, while to his former colleagues at the Bristol Royal Infirmary his untimely and unexpected death at the age of 53 makes a deeply-deplored gap in the alumni of the Bristol School, where he entered as a student in 1880, subsequently taking his M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. Remarkable for his quiet, almost ret...

The Presidency of George W . Bush

Following the tragic events of 9/11, when al Qaeda terrorists crashed three airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Americans turned their frightened eyes toward George W. Bush to see just what kind of president he would be. Most people weren't sure what they would find. The new president was still hard to define. His campaign in 2000 had sent mixed signals on a variety of issue...

Hollywood Post-9/11 Alien Films: Recontextualization of George. W. Bush's Discourse

The widely shocking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from America's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for Bush administration to pursue G. H. W. Bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. Various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

The Decision-making Behavior of George W. Bush’s Judicial Appointees

What is the ideological direction of the judges whom President George W. Bush has appointed to the bench during his first term? Until now we have had no quantitative, empirical data to respond to this query. Critics of the President, often liberal Democrats, have suggested that Bush’s judicial appointees are ultra-conservatives who are hostile to the interests of racial minorities, women, the e...

The 2007 George W. Beadle Medal. Robert K. Herman.