Guy Pearce’s character, Harrison Lee Van Buren, is not based on any specific, real-life wealthy industrialist. The story you see play out on screen between the two characters is made up.

That untenable situation gets worse after Attila and Laszlo are commissioned to redesign the reading room in the sprawling mansion of a rich industrialist, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Pearce).

William J. O'Neil Professor of Global Markets and Freedom, Southern Methodist University Professor Lee received his Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego in 1972. Since that time he has ...

Professor Justin Bronk is the Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at RUSI, and the Editor of the RUSI Defence Systems online journal. His particular areas ...

VAN BUREN, Maine — The Maine Department of Education last Friday named Van Buren educator Laurie Spooner as the 2025 Aroostook Teacher of the Year. Spooner teaches robotics, math, biology, human ...

KEOSAUQUA, Iowa — For 41 years, the sounds of piano keys and guitar strings echoed through the halls of the Van Buren County Community Schools. One teacher has been behind all the tunes played during ...

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I have weekly meetings with my supervisor, not just discussing the research but also how I'm feeling mentally and what I am doing to prepare myself for the future. It’s an all-round package of making ...

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of, among ...