Like Aaron Boone, Fisk was certainly a hero of sorts, but not THE hero.
Notable Fisk alumni include two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis, who graduated in 1956.
In 1952, Fisk was the first predominantly black college to earn a Phi Beta Kappa charter.
Fisk University is a four-year, coeducational, private liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee.
"To be free to do what we're doing is absolute magic, " Fisk recently told CNN.
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Mentoring the family's fifth generation--including Fisk, 41, and his sister, Helen Johnson-Leipold, 42--is part of his job description.
Mr. YOUNG and FISK UNIVERSITY JUBILEE CHOIR: (Singing in unison) When God made me, when God made me.
"Badlands" was also Mr. Malick's first collaboration with the production designer Jack Fisk.
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In 1930, Fisk was the first African-American institution to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Forbes ranks it below solid, small, and inexpensive places to get your bachelors, like Grove City College and Fisk University.
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Mr Fisk, who is based in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, is Middle East correspondent for the London daily, The Independent.
Staff "suggested" that the trio should leave and they shared a taxi back to Ms Fisk's house, in Fir Road.
Unlike the blue-collar homicide detectives Mr. Wolf has offered in the past, Jeremy Fisk is assigned to a police intelligence unit.
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Fisk hopes these new ideas will revolutionize how homes and office buildings are built and how communities are planned and organized.
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Currently, Fisk has 480 undergraduate students with an additional 53 graduate students.
Spending a day with Fisk on his 18-acre work site outside of Austin, Texas is like riding a rocket blast into the future.
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Fisk's mission is to develop environmentally-sustainable building materials and to fundamentally change the way we build our communities, like homes and office buildings.
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Early in his career, Fisk might have appeared like a wacky wizard working in a secret laboratory in the Texas Hill country mesquite brush.
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On the day we visit Fisk he's about to launch the first prototype test of his latest invention -- an environmentally friendly cement and building structure.
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Fisk is now considered to be on the cutting edge.
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If that doesn't make sense, Fisk makes it sound simple.
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May 20, 1976 Boston pitcher Bill Lee separates his shoulder during a brawl with the Yankees that begins when New York's Lou Piniella crashes into Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk at home plate.
Welcoming Mr Fisk to the campus, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett, said the journalist blended the sure-footed confidence of a veteran foreign correspondent "with the scholarship of one who understands the history of the region and its peoples".
DuBois, who studied at Fisk and became the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, who advocated for education in the arts and the sciences to cultivate the leaders and teachers of the next generation.
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After the live camera had followed in the trajectory of the ball, NBC aired the replay of an isolated shot of Fisk waving his arms to urge the ball fair, and then jumping for joy when it hit the foul poul.
He suggested reaching out to Abdel Barri Atwan, a leading Palestinian journalist based in London, as well as the veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk of the British Independent newspaper, both of whom had done interviews with bin Laden in the past.
When one of her lapses prevents the affable senior-class president (Colin Hanks) from gaining acceptance to Stanford, he decides to argue his case in person, enlisting the help of his crunchy girlfriend (Schuyler Fisk) and his sweaty armpit of a brother (Jack Black).
Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).
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