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Law on the National Arms, Flag, and Anthem The Law on the National Coat of Arms, Flag and Anthem (Spanish: Ley sobre el Escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacionales) is a set of rules and guidelines passed by the Mexican government on the display and use of the flag (bandera), coat of arms (escudo) and the anthem (himno). The original law was passed in 1984 and it contains 7 chapters, a preamble and a section that contains the lyircs of the national anthem.
Law Officers of the Crown The Law Officers of the Crown are the chief legal advisors to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms. In England and Wales, and most Commonwealth and colonial governments, the Law Officer of the Crown is the Attorney General.
Law Preservation Party Budgeteer 04:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)The Law Preservation Party was a New York State regional political party of the 1930's, which supported the continuance of Prohibition. The party was established in 1930 and ran a candidate for governor, Robert P Carroll, who received 190,666 votes,6.
Law review A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association.The New York International Law Review, for example, is published by the New York State Bar Association instead of a law school.
Law Reform Advisory Committee The Law Reform Advisory Committee is a body that reviews the civil law in Northern Ireland, with a view to making recommendations for law reform. It is the equivalent in Northern Ireland of the Law Commission in England and Wales or in Scotland.
Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defense The Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defense (in German: Gesetz ĂĽber MaĂźnahmen zur Staatsnotwehr) was issued by the Nazi-dominated government of Germany on July 3, 1934 to retroactively legalize the actions taken during the purge that had taken place between June 30 and July 2, 1934. The purge, known as Night of the Long Knives, resulted in the killing of numerous Sturmabteilung (storm trooper) leaders and other enemies of Hitler.
Law school outlines Law school outlines are study aids created by law school students. An outline typically provides a concise and direct statement of legal issues in a particular area of law, organized according to the typical law school curriculum.
Law society A Law Society in Commonwealth jurisdictions is an association of lawyers which has a regulatory role which includes the right to supervise the training and qualifications of lawyers. Where there is a distinction between barristers and solicitors, solicitors are regulated by the Law Society and barristers by a separate Bar council.
Law School Admission Council The Law School Admission Council is a nonprofit organization whose members are 202 law schools throughout the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (about 30 miles north of Philadelphia).
Law School Admission Test The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a norm-referenced, or standardized test that is administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) in the United States and Canada. It is intended to provide law schools with "a standard measure of acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants" Formally, LSAC correlates LSAT performance with first year law school grades.
Law School Rankings Law School Rankings are a specific subset of College and university rankings that deal specifically with law schools. Like college and university rankings, Law School Rankings can be based on subjectively perceived "quality," on some combination of empirical statistics, or on surveys of educators, scholars, students, prospective students, or others.
Law Society of England and Wales The Law Society of England and Wales is the professional association that represents the solicitors' profession in England and Wales. It provides services and support to practising and training solicitors as well as serving as a sounding board for law reform.
Law Yesaloni Law Yesaloni, Diana´s 2002 album is the first themed Diana album; Diana has always released one or two Khaliji (Gulf Dialect) songs on her albums, but this was the first time for her to release a 100% Khaliji album. Indeed, it was a first a Lebanese artist releases a Khaliji album.
Law-Racovita Station The Law-Racovita Station (Romanian: Law-RacoviĹŁÄ) is the first Antarctic exploration station of Romania, named after the Romanian explorer Emil RacoviĹŁÄ . It is situated in Princess Elizabeth Land, more specifically in the Larsemann Hills.
LawCrossing LawCrossing is a company that focuses exclusively on connecting people with jobs in the legal profession. It has one of the largest search websites, claiming to have tens of thousands of postings at any time in the database.
Lawes's Parotia The Lawes's Parotia, Parotia lawesii is a medium-sized, up to 27cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male is a velvet black bird with an erectile silvery white forehead crest, iridescent purple blue nape, lime yellow mouth and golden green breast plumes.
Lawfare Lawfare is one of several alternative war-making concepts outlined in the Chinese book Unrestricted Warfare, which is principally concerned with the new variety of offensive actions available to an international actor that cannot confront another power militarily. "Lawfare" is a form of warfare waged by using the nascent field of international law to attack an opponent on moral grounds: "international law warfare
Lawful enemy combatant The term lawful enemy combatant is defined in the Military Commissions Act of 2006; the term is used as an exclusionary term to prevent most of those who qualify under the definition from being an unlawful enemy combatant.
Lawful interception Lawful interception (aka wiretapping) is the interception of telecommunications by law enforcement authorities (LEA's) and intelligence services, in accordance with local law and after following due process and receiving proper authorization from competent authorities. Various countries have different rules with regards to lawful interception.
Lawhill Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque active in the early part of the 20th century. Although her career was not especially remarkable, save perhaps for being consistently profitable as a cargo carrier, in the 1930s Richard Cookson went on board and extensively documented Lawhill's internals and construction, which was later published in the Anatomy of the Ship series.
Lawkananda Pagoda Lawkananda Pagoda (also spelt Lokananda, literally "joy of the world") is a Buddhist zedi located in Bagan (formerly Pagan). It was built during the reign of King Anawrahta, and contains a replica of a Buddha tooth relic.
Lawless Element Lawless Element is an underground hip hop duo from Detroit, Michigan. The duo is composed of cousins Griot (West African for "Storyteller", born Alfred Austin) as emcee and Magnif (born Kavary Tapsico) as DJ, producer and emcee.
Lawley Baronets The Baronetcy of Lawley, of Spoonhill in the County of Shropshire, was created in the Baronetcy of England on 16 August 1641. In 1831 it merged with the second creation of Baron Wenlock, which title became extinct in 1834.
Lawlor Island Lawlor Island is 55 ha in size and located opposite MacCormicks Beach in Eastern Passage and McNabs Island in the outermost limit of Halifax Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia.The island is primarily undeveloped woodland,and the protected home of deer and osprey.
Lawn cloth Lawn cloth, or simply Lawn, is a term used in the textile trade for both a type of plain-weave gray cloth, and a type of starched crisp-finish given to a cloth product. The finish itself can be applied to several kinds of fabric, from print cloth to fine plain cloth.
Lawn Funeral EP Lawn Funeral EP is an hybrid CD/MP3 (online) promotional single/EP by The Flashbulb.As a method of garnering interest in his intense upcoming release, Red Extensions of Me, The Flashbulb (AKA Benn Jordan) released a small CD pressing of two tracks, one an edited form of one of the most popular tracks from the album, Lawn Wake I, and an unreleased track from the sessions of the album, Lawn Wake IV (Black).
Lawn Hill crater Lawn Hill â€crater’ refers to an impact structure (or astrobleme), the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in northwestern Queensland, Australia. The site is marked by an 18 km diameter ring of limestone hills.
Lawn jockey A lawn jockey, also commonly known as a "Yardell" is a small statue of a man in jockey clothes, intended to be placed in yards. Most today are white jockeys, but historically African-American jockeys were commonplace.
Lawn Tennis Association The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Its objects are to promote and develop tennis and to advance and safeguard the interests of the sport and the governing body.
Lawndale (Daria) Lawndale is a fictional suburban town and is the setting of the MTV animated series Daria. All that is known about the town's location is that it is somewhere in the continental United States, with California, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, upstate New York, and Connecticut being popular fan guesses of its exact area.
Lawndale Art Center Lawndale Art Center is a non-profit alternative space for the exhibition of contemporary works in all media, unique in its focus on Houston area artists. Founded in 1979, Lawndale has owned its present location on Main Street in Houston's Museum District since 1993.
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Lawnchair Records Lawnchair Records is a small independent record label based in Fairfax, Virginia formed in 2003 by Lars Laing-Peterson and Anna Maria Pelot . They have released albums by artists such as In Memory of Me, Devotion to Trust and The Scare.
LawPeriscope LawPeriscope publishes and maintains on the Internet a directory of the 300 largest US law firms. For each of these law firms, LawPeriscope produces a succinct one-page profile for quick research and evaluation of a law firm's capabilities.
Lawren Harris Lawren Stewart Harris (October 23, 0001 – January 17, 2007) was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford, Ontario and is best known as a member of the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century.
Lawrence "Crash" Davis Lawrence "Crash" Davis (1919-August 31, 2001) was an American professional baseball player who inspired the title character of the 1988 movie Bull Durham. Born in Canon, Georgia in 1919, Davis earned the nickname "Crash" at age 14 when he collided with a teammate when chasing down a fly ball.
Lawrence (LIRR station) Lawrence is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in Lawrence, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The station is located at Lawrence Avenue and Bayview Avenue, two blocks west of Central Avenue, and is 21.
Lawrence (TTC) Lawrence is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway system in Toronto, Canada. It is located at 3101 Yonge Street at Lawrence Avenue West/East, with an unstaffed entrance at Bedford Park Road/Ranleigh Avenue.
Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts The Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, located in Orange, California, is a part of Chapman University. The Dodge College is comprised of the School of Film and Television, the Conservatory of Motion Pictures, and the Institute for the Study of Media and the Public Interest.
Lawrence and Wishart British publishing company associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain, formed through the merger of Martin Lawrence, the Communist Party's press and Wishart Ltd, a family-owned liberal and anti-fascist publisher.
Lawrence Ah Mon Lawrence Ah Mon or Lau Kwok Cheong ĺŠ‰ĺś‹ćŚ is a South Africa-born Hong Kong film director. His films are famous for exploring youth problems in Hong Kong, such as Gangs(1986), Spacked Out(2000) and Gimme Gimme(2001).
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948-1972), Director (1972-1985) and Honorary Research Associate (1986-1997).
Lawrence Arabia Lawrence Arabia is the musical guise of New Zealand artist James Milne. In 2006 Lawrence Arabia released his self titled debut album and the debut album his band The Reduction Agents, The Dance Reduction Agents.
Lawrence Batley Lawrence Batley was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who was born in the town of Huddersfield, in the English county of Yorkshire, and went on to pioneer the wholesale cash and carry business, and to support local endeavours in the areas of arts, education and sports.
Lawrence Batley International The Lawrence Batley International was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually from 1981 to 1987. The first three editions were played at Bingley St lves, Bradford, the next three at Ryder Cup venue The Belfry and the final edition at Open Championship venue Royal Birkdale.
Lawrence Blochman Lawrence Goldtree Blochman (1900 - 1975) was an American writer and a prominent translator of Georges Simenon. In 1951, Blochman's "Diagnosis: Homicide" received an Edgar Award in the Best Short Story category.
Lawrence Brahm Lawrence Brahm is a journalist and businessman in the People's Republic of China, best known for his entrepreneural ventures in the country, such as the Red Capital Club. He has a regular column in the South China Morning Post based in Hong Kong.
Lawrence Brainerd Lawrence Brainerd (March 16, 1794 - May 9, 1870) was a United States Senator from Vermont. Born in East Hartford, Connecticut, he went to Troy, New York in 1803 to reside with an uncle and in 1808 moved with him to St.
Lawrence Bush Lawrence Bush is author of six books of Jewish fiction and non-fiction and most recently provided updating and commentary for the millennial edition of Leo Rosten's classic, The Joys of Yiddish. Bush edits Jewish Currents, a bimonthly magazine that is more than 60 years old, and is the former editor of Reconstructionism Today, the quarterly magazine of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement.
Lawrence Cabin The Lawrence Log Cabin is a log cabin located on Cobbs Creek in Powder Mill Valley Park in Havertown, Pennsylvania, near Nitre Hall. It was originally located on Darby Creek, but was moved in 1961 when threatened with destruction.
Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition The Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition is an annual competition in impromptu public speaking between representatives of each of the Great Public Schools (GPS) and Combined Associated Schools (CAS) in New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1935 in honour of Lawrence Campbell, a famous teacher of elocution in various schools in Sydney, New South Wales, in the early twentieth century.
Lawrence Carra Lawrence Carra (1909–2006) was an American professor of drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a director of theater and television as well as a mentor to hundreds of actors and directors.
Lawrence Carthage Weathers Lawrence Carthage Weathers, VC (14 May 1890 – 2 September 1918) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Lawrence Clay Bey Lawrence Marvin Clay-Bey (born December 14, 1965 in Bloomfield, Connecticut) is an American heavyweight professional boxer. Although he had a very promising amateur career, as a pro, Clay-Bey is a fringe contender and has yet to land a major title shot.
Lawrence Colburn Lawrence Colburn is a United States Army veteran who, while serving as a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War, earned a place in history for being one of three servicemen who intervened in the March 16, 1968 My Lai Massacre.
Lawrence College (Ghora Gali) The Lawrence School, Ghora Gali (near Murree), Punjab, Pakistan, one of the few oldest co-educational boarding schools in the world, was established in 1860, and is named after Major General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence of the Army of the colonial India’s British Raj. It is now known as Lawrence College.
Lawrence Crawford Lawrence Crawford (1611 - 1645) was a Scottish soldier who fought in English or other armies on the continent of Europe. However, his motives were not mercenary, as he fought only for Presbyterian principles or causes.
Lawrence Dallaglio Lorenzo "Lawrence" Bruno Nero Dallaglio (born on August 10, 1972 in London) is the former captain of the English national rugby union team. He plays as a flanker or Number 8 for London Wasps, he has never played in another set of club colours, arriving at Sudbury as a teenager.
Lawrence Denny Lindsley Lawrence Denny Lindsley (March 18, 1879 – 1974) was an American photographer and also worked as a miner, hunter, and guide. Lindsley was a grandson of Seattle pioneer, David Thomas Denny (1832-1903), a member of the Denny Party.
Lawrence Dillon Lawrence Dillon (born 3 July 1959, Summit, NJ) is an American composer, and currently Composer in Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts. His music has a wide range of expression, generally within a tonal idiom notable both for its rhythmic propulsiveness and a strong lyrical element.
Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin (16 September 1919–28 October 2002) was an American television director, character actor, and television screenwriter. He was born in New York City, and died in Los Angeles, California, of heart failure.
Lawrence Dominic McCarthy Lawrence Dominic McCarthy VC (21 January 1892- 25 May 1975) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Lawrence Donegan Lawrence Donegan (born 13 July 1961, in Stirling, Scotland) was the bassist in Lloyd Cole and the Commotions and The Bluebells, who after leaving the latter group, became a journalist and an author. He is currently a golf journalist for The Guardian, having previously worked at The Scotsman.
Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland (April 10, 1766) – (February 19, 1839) was a British politician and nobleman. Born in London, the son of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge
Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, KT (16 August 1844 – 11 March 1929) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He was born in London and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, being commissioned as a Cornet in the Royal Horse Guards in 1866.
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland Laurence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland 1876-1971 (known as the Earl of Ronaldshay before he succeeded his father as Marquess) was a British politician who served as Secretary of State for India in the late 1930s.
Lawrence Durrell Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.
Lawrence E. Spivak Lawrence E. Spivak (1900–1994) was an American publisher and journalist who was best known as the producer and moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, a position which he held from the program's inception in the 1940s until his retirement in 1975.
Lawrence E. Walsh Lawrence E. Walsh, (born January 8, 1912) is an American lawyer and former judge and Deputy Attorney General who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel in 1987 to investigate the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan Administration.
Lawrence East (TTC) Lawrence East is a station on the Scarborough Rapid Transit line of the subway/RT system in Toronto, Canada. It is located at 2444 Lawrence Avenue East between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue and opened in 1985.
Lawrence Eric Taylor Lawrence Eric Taylor, often referred to as the "Dean of DUI Attorneys", is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (1966) and UCLA School of Law (1969). Now a nationally promiment attorney specializing in drunk driving defense, Taylor was a public defender and criminal prosecutor in Los Angeles County before entering private practice.
Lawrence Farwell Dr Lawrence Farwell is the inventor of brain fingerprinting which utilizes a technology that he developed, MERMER. He was formerly a research associate at Harvard University and is currently the chairman and Chief Scientist of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919) is an American poet who is known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beats, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
Lawrence Frank Lawrence Frank (born August 23, 1970 in New York City) is a coach in the NBA. He currently is the head coach of the New Jersey Nets, and is currently the youngest head coach in the NBA, being slightly younger than Mike Brown of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Lawrence Funderburke Lawrence Funderburke (born on December 15, 1970 in Columbus, Ohio) is a player in the NBA. He played his freshman year of college basketball at Indiana University, but transferred after that season to The Ohio State University, where he played his three remaining years of eligibility and eventually graduated.
Lawrence Grossberg Lawrence Grossberg is an internationally renowned scholar of cultural studies and popular culture (focusing on popular music and youth culture). He is also widely known for his research in the philosophy of culture and communication and postmodernism.
Lawrence Gullo Lawrence Gullo (also known as "Zan," "Wren" and "His Majesty"), born 30th September 1984, is an illustrator and animator, currently living in London, England, though has American nationality. He is the creator of a long-running comic known as My Life In Blue.
Lawrence Guterman Lawrence Guterman's directing career began when Dreamworks SKG partner Steven Spielberg hired him to direct the live-action portion of Dreamworks Interactive's "Goosebumps: Escape From Horrorland" video game in 1996, after seeing Guterman's University of Southern California's Master's Thesis film "Headless!" The short had won the Grand Jury Prize for best Student Film at the 1996 Worldfest Houston International Film Festival.
Lawrence Guyot Lawrence Guyot is a civil rights activist who was the head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Guyot is often a guest of the FOXNews Channel on Bill O'Reilly's "The Factor" where the debate is usually heated.
Lawrence Hargrave Drive Lawrence Hargrave Drive is a road that run along a narrow part of the east Australian coast known as the Northern Illawarra. The road begins at Helensburgh and passes Stanwell tops to descend Bald Hill (one of only five roads to descend the Illawarra escartment).
Lawrence Hayward Lawrence Hayward (born 12 August 1961, also known as Larry, Jon Lawrence or simply Lawrence) is best known as the enigmatic singer, songwriter and guitarist of seminal British indie band Felt. He is often described as being eccentric.
Lawrence Heights Lawrence Heights is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former city of North York, which was merged with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new "City of Toronto" in 1998.
Lawrence High School (New Jersey) Lawrence High School (LHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, serving grades 9-12 as part of the Lawrence Township Public Schools. LHS was built in the early 1960s.
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs (born September 4, 1953 in New York City, New York, United States) is an American] actor. He has appeared in a number of films and television programs, including [[Cooley High (1975), Roots (1977), Welcome Back Kotter (1975), and The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992).
Lawrence Horn Lawrence Horn is an African-American musician, formerly a record producer and chief recording engineer for Motown Records. He is currently serving a life sentence for hiring a hit man to commit a triple-murder.
Lawrence III (Pokémon) In the Pokémon anime, Lawrence III (or Lawrence the Third) is a young man who collects Pokémon, which sometimes refers to another nickname "The Collector". He appears in Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (Pokémon: Revelation Lugia in Japanese), where his main objective is to steal Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres in order to awaken the Water's Great Guardian.
Lawrence Jenco The late Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, (27 November 1934 - 19 July 1996), a native of Joliet, Illinois, was taken hostage in Beirut by five armed men in January 1985, while serving as director of Catholic Relief Services there. He was held for 564 days before being released and allowed to return to the United States.
Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum The Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum (also known as the LJVM Coliseum, the Joel Coliseum, or just simply "the Joel") is a 14,407-seat multi-purpose arena in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Construction on the arena began on April 23, 1987 and it opened on August 28, 1989.
Lawrence Johnson Lawrence Johnson (born May 7, 1974) is a retired pole vaulter, born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000, he also won a gold medal at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Lawrence Joseph Sarsfield Daly Lawrence Joseph Sarsfield Daly (January 22 1912–April 18 1979), also known as Lar Daly, was a fringe American politician who ran unsuccessfully for a variety of political offices (including President of the United States) , often campaigning wearing an Uncle Sam suit .
Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, CBE (June 2, 1899 in Hong Kong - August 25, 1993 in Hong Kong) was a famous industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist. His father was Sir Elly Kadoorie, and his uncle, Sir Ellis.
Lawrence Kaplow Lawrence Kaplow is an American television writer and producer most notably for his work on the FOX series, House, for which he won the 2005 Writers Guild of America Award for "Outstanding Television Script, Episodic Drama."
Lawrence Kaptein Lawrence Kaptein is the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he conducts the University Choir. He received degrees from Willamette University, Portland State University, and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral music and conducting from the University of Southern California.
Lawrence Kasdan Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January, 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major.
Lawrence Korb Lawrence J. Korb born July 9, 1939, in New York City, is the Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information.
Lawrence Lane Lawrence Lane is a theatrical producer who is best known as one of the original producers of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy". Lane, who served as Manging Director for the Glines, produced the play in 1978 at the LaMama Experiemental Theatre Club, with his lover John Glines, who served as the company's Artistic Director.
Lawrence Lemieux Lawrence Lemieux (born on November 12, 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian sailor, who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the Finn class. Lemieux was on course to win a silver medal when he noticed Joseph Chan and Shaw Her Siew of Singapore who had fallen out of his boat and was injured.
Lawrence Lessing Lawrence Lessing is associate editor of Fortune Magazine and winner of the 1965 AAAS-Westinghouse Science Journalism Award for his article in Fortune on the causes of earthquakes. Lessing is the author of Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong.
Lawrence Liang Lawrence Liang is a legal researcher and an Indian lawyer of Chinese descent, based in the city of Bangalore, who is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. He is a founder of the Alternate Law Forum, and as of 2006 has emerged as a prominent spokesperson against concepts like "intellectual property".
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