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 half of his 30 league games, as he was the third piece of the Lyon attacking line, with Nabil Fekir and Alexandre Lacazette. N'Jie also finished the season with a 73% shot-on-target ratio, second to only to Paris Saint-Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimović, who ended the campaign on 74%. Tottenham Hotspur
On 15 August 2015, English side Tottenham Hotspur announced that the club had reached an agreement for the signing of N'Jie from Lyon, subject to international clearance and a work permit.N'Jie agreed to a five-year contract with a reported transfer fee of €12 million (£8.3 million). N'Jie made his Spurs debut on 17 September in a Europa League group stage match against Qarabağ, coming on as a substitute for Andros Townsend. On 10 December 2015, he tore his medial collateral ligament (MCL) after a challenge by Jérémy Toulalan during a Europa League group stage match against Monaco. He had to undergo knee surgery for the MCL tear and was expected to out of action for at least 1–2 months, and possibly longer. Working with injured teammate Jan Vertonghen during his recovery, N'Jie eventually made his return on 8 May 2016 in a Premier League match against Southampton, in what would be his final appearance of the season. N'Jie made 8 appearances (all of them as a substitute) for Tottenham in the Premier League, his longest a 79-minute affair when he replaced the injured Nacer Chadli against Liverpool. In addition, N'Jie made 5 appearances, starting in 2 of them, in Tottenham's Europa League campaign, and did not score a goal in all competitions.Marseille

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 on a season-long loan deal. Marseille had a €7 million option to buy him at the end of the loan, and Georges-Kévin Nkoudou headed to White Hart Lane on a permanent move in the opposite direction. On 11 September, he made his debut as a substitute for William Vainqueur in the 68th minute away to Nice, and he scored his first goal two weeks later to equalise in a 2–1 home win against Nantes. On 16 July 2017, N'Jie made his move to Marseille permanent, signing for an undisclosed fee. On 6 August, in the season opener against Dijon, he came on at half time for injured captain Dimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final.Dynamo Moscow
On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a four-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. He scored his first goal for Dynamo on 27 October 2019, a late winner in a 1–0 victory over PFC CSKA Moscow. International career

N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the Democratic Republic of Congo on 6 September 2014, and followed this up four days later by scoring twice in a 4–1 victory over Ivory Coast at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon. He was named in the squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and played in one group stage match, coming on as a 67th-minute substitute in a 1–0 loss to Ivory Coast. He won the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. On Thursday, 3 February 2022,


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N'Jie is a pacy forward who likes to play on the shoulder of the last defender, just off the front man.He can also play off the wing, and as dribbling is a key attribute of his game, he likes to take on players when given the chance. He frequently draws comparisons to Cameroon's all-time leading scorer and compatriot Samuel Eto'o, with this comparison being asserted by Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas. Career statistics

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Coupe de la Ligue runner-up: 2013–14

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UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2017–18

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Africa Cup of Nations: 2017
Africa Cup of Nations third place: 2022

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Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in England
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Bajpayee was born in a brahmin family on 23 April 1969 in a small village called Belwa near the city Bettiah in West Champaran, Bihar.He is the second child among his five other siblings, and was named after actor <mask> Kumar. One of his younger sisters Poonam Dubey, is a fashion designer in the film industry. His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife. As a son of a farmer, Bajpayee would do farming during their vacation. Since childhood, he wanted to become an actor. His father had difficulty collecting money for their education. He studied in a "hut school" till fourth standard, and later did his schooling at Khrist Raja High School, Bettiah.He completed his 12th class from Maharani Janaki Kunwar College in Bettiah. He moved to New Delhi at the age of seventeen and went to Satyawati, then to Ramjas College, Delhi University. Bajpayee had heard about the National School of Drama from actors such as Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah, so he applied. He was rejected three times and wanted to commit suicide afterward. He then attended director and acting coach Barry John's workshop after actor Raghubir Yadav's suggestion. Impressed by Bajpayee's acting, John hired him to assist him in his teaching. After that he applied at the National School of Drama for the fourth time, and they offered him a teaching position at the school instead.Bajpayee was married to a girl from Delhi, but got divorced during his period of struggle. He met actress Shabana Raza, who is also known as Neha, right after her debut film Kareeb (1998). The couple married in 2006 and they have a daughter. Career

1994–2001: Debut and breakthrough
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texts: acted in the biographical drama Bandit Queen (1994). Tigmanshu Dhulia, the casting director of the film suggested his name to its director Shekhar Kapur. Bajpai was considered for the role of dacoit Vikram Mallah in the film, which eventually went to Nirmal Pandey. Bajpayee got the role of dacoit Mann Singh in the film.During that time, he also did a television serial called Kalakaar, directed by Hansal Mehta and Imtihaan (Doordarshan). Bajpayee was a struggling actor when Mahesh Bhatt offered him the soap opera Swabhimaan (1995), which aired on Doordarshan. He agreed to do the serial at a low fee. Next, Bajpayee appeared in minor roles in films such as Dastak (1996) and Tamanna (1997). Director Ram Gopal Varma discovered Bajpayee when he was casting for Daud (1997), a comedy film, where he had a supporting role. Following completion of the filming, Varma expressed his regret for offering Bajpayee a minor role. He then promised Bajpayee  a prominent role in his next film.Satya (1998), a crime drama, was their next film together. In the film, Bajpayee played gangster Bhiku Mhatre, who accompanies the title character to form their nexus in the Mumbai underworld. Satya was mostly shot in the real slums of Mumbai. It was screened at the 1998 International Film Festival of India and opened to mostly positive reviews. Anupama Chopra called Bajpayee and others' performances "[..] so good that you can almost smell the Mumbai grime on their sweaty bodies." The film was a commercial success, and <mask> won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his performance. Filmfare later included his performance in the 2010 issue of Bollywood's "Top 80 Iconic Performances".Bajpayee then collaborated with Verma in the year 1999 with Kaun? and Shool; with Verma directing the former and producing the latter. Kaun, was a whodunit with only three characters in a


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 house, where Bajpayee played an annoying talkative stranger. The film was a box office disappointment. Shool saw him play the role of an honest police officer who finds himself in the politician-criminal nexus of the Motihari district in Bihar. Sify labelled Bajpayee's performance in the film as "truly amazing [..] especially the emotional scenes with Raveena Tandon." The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, with Bajpayee winning the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance.He also acted in the Telugu romantic film Prema Katha (1999). The year 2000 started for Bajpayee with the comedy Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! and the crime drama Ghaath, both alongside Tabu. A dialogue from the former sparked controversy in some political parties. Bajpayee's first release in 2001 was Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's supernatural thriller Aks. His negative portrayal of Raghavan Ghatge, a criminal who dies and is reincarnated in the body of Manu Verma (played by Amitabh Bachchan), garnered him the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role nomination. It was followed by Shyam Benegal's Zubeidaa, co-starring Rekha and Karisma Kapoor.He played Maharaja Vijayendra Singh of Fatehpur, a polo enthusiast prince with two wives. His character was inspired by Hanwant Singh, the Maharaja of Jodhpur. 2002–09: Career struggle
Bajpayee's sole release of 2002 was the road thriller Road. He played the antagonist in the film, a hitchhiker who turns out to be a psychopathic killer, after taking a lift from a couple (played by Vivek Oberoi and Antara Mali). Bajpayee received another Filmfare nomination for Best Performance in a Negative Role, for the film. Pinjar (2003), a period drama, set during the partition of India, was Bajpayee's first release of the year. Directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, the film was based on a Punjabi novel of the same name.He received the National Film Special Jury Award


texts: for his performance in the film. He subsequently portrayed Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav in J. P. Dutta's ensemble war film LOC: Kargil. It was based on the Kargil War, and Bajpayee was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for it. Both the films were commercially unsuccessful. Bajpayee's next roles were in Jaago (2004) opposite Raveena Tandon, Makarand Deshpande's Hanan and the thriller Inteqam. In Jaago, he played a police officer who takes the situation into his own hands, after his 10-year-old daughter is raped and killed. The same year, he appeared in a supporting role in Yash Chopra's romantic drama Veer-Zaara (2004).The film was screened at the 55th Berlin Film Festival, and grossed over  globally, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year. In 2005, Bajpayee acted in Dharmesh Darshan's drama Bewafaa, the thriller Fareb, and the English language film Return to Rajapur. He also acted in the Telugu romance Happy (2006). In 2007, Bajpayee played Major Suraj Singh in 1971. The film tells the story of six Indian army soldiers, who escape from the Pakistani prison after they were captured during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN, criticised the film but wrote: "[Bajpayee] is in great form, he holds back mostly and in the process, constructs a character that says more with his eyes than with words." He next starred opposite Juhi Chawla in Ganesh Acharya's drama film Swami.Bajpayee's final release of the year was the anthology film Dus Kahaniyaan. He acted in the Sanjay Gupta – directed story Zahir alongside Dia Mirza. All of his 2007 releases were financial failures. Next year, he starred in the ensemble comedy Money Hai Toh Honey Hai (2008), which was also a box office disaster. <mask>'s shoulder got injured while filming the Telugu film Vedam, and was absent from the screen for nearly two years. He then returned in a major role with the comedy


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 Jugaad (2009), which was based on the 2006 Delhi sealing drive incident. His next release was the mystery thriller Acid Factory (2009), which was a remake of the 2006 American film Unknown.He played a comic role of one among the people who are kidnapped and locked in a factory with no memory of how they came there. The film did not do well at the box office. The string of financial failures continued with his next release. In Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail (2009), he played a convict serving life imprisonment. He called his role a "narrator" and "mentor" of its protagonist (played by Neil Nitin Mukesh). 2010–present: Raajneeti and beyond
In 2010, Bajpayee starred in Prakash Jha's big-budget ensemble political thriller Raajneeti. Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India in her review mentioned that Bajpayee "[..] grab[s] eyeballs in [his] scenes" and "brings back memories of his mesmeric performances."Indian trade journalists were apprehensive of Raajneeti recovering its  investment. The film, however, proved to be a major commercial success, with worldwide earnings of over . <mask> received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at Filmfare for the film. He then acted in two Telugu films; Vedam (2010) and Puli (2010), followed by the comedy Dus Tola (2010). He also provided the voice of Rama in the animated film Ramayana: The Epic, which was based on the Indian epic Ramayana. Aarakshan (2011), a socio-drama based on the issue of caste based reservations in Indian, was <mask>'s next film. The film sparked controversy in some groups and was banned in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh before its theatrical release.Trade journalists had high expectations for the film, but it ultimately flopped at the box office. <mask>'s followup was the thriller Lanka (2011). In 2012, <mask> appeared in Anurag Kashyap's two-part crime film Gangs of Wasseypur. His character Sardar Khan appeared in the first one. To

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texts: prepare for his role, Bajpayee shaved his head and lost four kilogram of weight. It premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Toronto film festival, and the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Gangs of Wasseypur released in India on 22 June to positive response.Anupama Chopra called it his best performance since Bhiku Mhatre in Satya. For his performance in the film, <mask> was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. His next film was the historical drama Chittagong (2012), based on the Chittagong armoury raid. Bajpai portrayed the Bengali independence fighter Surya Sen in it, for which he charged no money. His final release of the year was Chakravyuh, where he played a Naxalite; a role which required him to lose 5 kilograms weight. Writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar called Chakravyuh "the best film of last 20 years". On the contrary, a review carried by India Today called it an "amateurish attempt", but praised Bajpayee's acting.In 2013, Bajpayee had five releases: Samar, his Tamil debut film, was the first release. He appeared in a supporting role in the film. He then appeared in Neeraj Pandey's heist thriller Special 26. Based on the 1987 Opera House heist, he portrayed a CBI officer in the film. It was followed by the crime film Shootout at Wadala, where he played a character inspired by the gangster Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar. Bajpayee collaborated with Prakash Jha for the fourth time with Satyagraha. The film was loosely inspired by social activist Anna Hazare's fight against corruption in 2011, featuring an ensemble cast, the film was highly anticipated by trade journalists due to its release coinciding with the Mumbai and Delhi gang rape public protests.Satyagraha earned  domestically. Bajpayee then provided the voice of Yudhishthira for Mahabharat, a 3D animation film based on the Indian epic of the same name. In 2014, Bajpayee played the antagonist in the Tamil action film Anjaan.


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 Bajpayee continued to play negative roles with his next film Tevar (2015). A remake of the 2003 Telugu film Okkadu, the film opened to negative reviews and was a box office failure. The same year, he along with Raveena Tandon, appeared in the patriotic-themed short film Jai Hind. With a run-time of 6 minutes, the film was released on YouTube by OYO Rooms, right before the Indian Independence Day.Bajpayee acted in another short film titled Taandav in 2016. Directed by Devashish Makhija, the film showcased the pressure and scenarios faced by an honest police constable, and was released on YouTube. The same year, he portrayed professor
Ramchandra Siras, in Hansal Mehta's biographical drama Aligarh. The story followed the life of a homosexual professor who was expelled from Aligarh Muslim University because of his sexuality. Bajpayee watched a few clippings of Siras to prepare for his role. The film was screened at the 20th Busan International Film Festival, and the 2015 Mumbai Film Festival. Aligarh was released on 26 February 2016 to positive reviews.Bajpayee won the Best Actor award at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards and his third Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. He next played a traffic constable in Rajesh Pillai's swan song Traffic (2016). A remake of the Malayalam film of the same name, the film was released on 6 May 2016. His subsequent release of the year was the biographical sports film Budhia Singh – Born to Run, where he played the coach of Budhia Singh; the world's youngest marathon runner. It was followed by the comedy film Saat Uchakkey (2016) and the short film Ouch directed by Neeraj Pandey. Bajpayee's first release of 2017 was the spy thriller Naam Shabana, a spin-off to the 2015 film Baby with Taapsee Pannu reprising her role as Shabana. The same year, he reunited with Ram Gopal Varma for the crime drama Sarkar 3.It was the third instalment in the Sarkar film series. In


texts: the film, his character was loosely based on Arvind Kejriwal. Later that year, Bajpayee appeared briefly in the drama film Rukh. In 2018, Bajpayee reunited with Neeraj Pandey with the crime thriller Aiyaary, where he played Colonel Abhay Singh who is in pursuit of his protege Major Jai Bakshi (Sidharth Malhotra). Film critic Namrata Joshi criticised the film's plot and called Bajpayee and one song, the "film's only saving graces". He later appeared in Ahmed Khan's Baaghi 2, alongside Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani. Later that year, Bajpayee acted and made his debut as a producer with the psychological thriller Missing, co-starring Tabu.The film mostly received negative review from critics. Shubhra Gupta called it a "shoddy mess". He next appeared alongside John Abraham in the vigilante action film Satyameva Jayate (2018). The same year he appeared in the psychological drama Gali Guleiyan, directed by debutant Dipesh Jain, where he played an electrician living in Old Delhi, who starts losing his grasp over reality. He won the Best Actor award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. The film premiered at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival and was also screened at the 2017 MAMI Film Festival, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, Atlanta Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival. His final release of the year was Tabrez Noorani's ensemble drama Love Sonia, a film about sex trafficking.It had its premiere at the 2018 London Indian Film Festival and was released in India on 14 September 2018. In Devashish Makhija's Bhonsle, Bajpayee played a terminally ill retired Mumbai cop who befriends a North Indian girl when the locals are trying to get rid of the migrants in the city. The film and his performance met with positive response from critics with Namrata Joshi calling his acting "astounding in his internalisation of Bhonsle and acts


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 with not just his face but by deploying his whole body." The role earned him his first National Film Award for Best Actor and second Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor. In 2019, he was given India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri for his contributions to art. The same year he portrayed dacoit Man Singh in Abhishek Chaubey's action film Sonchiriya. Raja Sen in his review wrote that Bajpayee is "excellent as a rebel chief."Later, he appeared in the spy action drama web series The Family Man, directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. Bajpayee played the role of a middle-class man who secretly works for an intelligence agency. The series and his performance received positive response from critics with Rohit Naahar of Hindustan Times writing: "<mask> Bajpayee is, as he usually tends to be, effortlessly excellent." He won the Critics Choice Best Actor, Drama Series Award at the 2020 Filmfare OTT Awards. In 2020, Bajpayee did a supporting role in Shirish Kunder's crime thriller film Mrs. Serial Killer, co-starring Jacqueline Fernandez. The film, which was released on Netflix, met with a negative response.His final release of the year was the comedy flick Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari alongside Diljit Dosanjh and Fatima Sana Shaikh. It was the first film to release theatrically in India after nearly eight months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next year, he narrated the Discovery+ documentary show Secrets of Sinauli, directed by Neeraj Pandey. Bajpayee also appeared as a cop trying to solve a murder case in the thriller Silence... Can You Hear It?. The film was released on ZEE5 and met with mixed critical feedback. Acting style & influence
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 (2014).Bajpayee has also been vocal about the disparity in the pay he commands, in comparison to the top actors in the film industry. He has cited Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah and Raghubir Yadav as his inspirations. Director Ram Gopal Varma considers him to be "an education" for himself and said he is "simply the best actor I've ever worked with." Shekhar Kapur, who directed him in Bandit Queen, recalls: "Manoj had the ability to portray a lot just by doing little. He never tried to overplay a scene and seemed totally comfortable with a minimalist statement." According to director Hansal Mehta, Manoj "has the ability to transform himself like few others." Bajpayee's performance as Bhiku Mhatre in Satya is considered to be one of the most memorable characters of Hindi cinema, along with his dialogue in it: "Mumbai ka king kaun?Bhiku Mhatre" (Who is the king of Mumbai? Bhiku Mhatre). Kay Kay Menon credits this character as a turning point for other method actors: "If it were not for Manoj's brilliant performance in Satya, actors like Irrfan and me might still be waiting to be accepted. Manoj opened the doors for us." Writing about the character in his book Popcorn Essayists, journalist-writer Jai Arjun Singh wrote that "the "earthiness" and the "authenticity" [of the character], was the subtle result of a persistence in Bajpai's performance." Filmography

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Indian male film actors
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Indian male television actors
Indian male stage actors
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20th-century Indian male actors
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Special Jury Award (feature film) National Film Award winners
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Govinda K.C. (Nepali: गोविन्द  के.सी.) is a Nepali orthopaedic surgeon and philanthropic activist. He is a professor of orthopaedics at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), part of the Institute of Medicine, Nepal. He is known for his humanitarian work in Nepal and internationally and for his activism in favor of the independent academic functioning of the government medical institutions of Nepal, notably the Institute of Medicine and Patan Academy of Health Sciences. His non-violent protests and fasts have successfully pressured the Nepali government and stakeholders to make change. Early life and schooling

After graduating high school, Govinda K.C.studied at the Institute of Medicine in Nepal to become a Health Assistant (H.A. ), the equivalent of a Physician Assistant in the US. He was unaware at the time that this was a step to becoming a doctor. Upon completing his H.A., he won a Ministry of Education scholarship to study for a M.B.B.S. in Bangladesh at Rajshahi Medical College. After graduation, he returned to Nepal and worked at Bir Hospital. He then received a M.S.from Dhaka University in Bangladesh and became an orthopaedic surgeon. Although he wanted to serve in a tertiary hospital and there was a shortage of orthopaedists in Kathmandu, plans were made to transfer him to a rural hospital where there would be no facilities to practice orthopaedics. He resigned from Bir Hospital and joined the Institute of Medicine as a volunteer in 1994. Humanitarian work

K.C. has preferred to use his professorship salary to provide services in remote areas of Nepal and has travelled internationally in response to natural calamities. He has not taken funds from any


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 non-governmental organizations (NGO) to provide these services. Apart from his work in the aftermath of the earthquake in Nepal, he financed these Nepalese and international humanitarian services himself.Nepal

TUTH offers K.C. a few weeks of vacation every year. He spends this time at the most rural clinics in Nepal, which are unreachable by public transportation. He often travels long distances by foot to reach the clinics. In these clinics, he trains health workers to identify orthopaedic emergencies, provide emergency treatment, and if necessary, provide timely referrals. He also organizes health camps in remote places. He gives medications to people and makes the necessary arrangements to give free medical treatment when they come for further treatment in Kathmandu.He has faced allegations of being a spy and an insurgent when he worked in health during the Maoists' insurgency. The rural districts of Nepal had an outbreak of cholera some years ago. Many doctors refused to go there, even if paid. K.C. travelled to the afflicted areas to provide humanitarian aid, carrying the medicine on his back. International

K.C. has travelled extensively to assist victims of international natural disasters.In 2001, he spent three weeks in the Bhuj region in Gujarat, India after the earthquake. In 2005, he served in Northwest Pakistan for around 20 days after a disastrous earthquake. After a cyclone in Myanmar in 2008, the government of Myanmar prevented foreign aid agencies from entering the country but admitted him for two weeks. In 2010, he went to Haiti in the wake of the disastrous earthquake and served there for three weeks. In 2011, he served flood victims in Pakistan for two


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 weeks. In 2013, he went to the Philippines to treat people affected by a tsunami there. Medical activism

K.C.has been a prominent campaigner for medical sector reform in Nepal in response to public allegations of both corruption and undue political pressure to give medical college affiliation to facilities with inadequate infrastructure. His ongoing advocacy over several years has included several lengthy personal hunger strikes, which have received extensive media coverage and successfully pressured authorities to make changes. In January 2014, K.C. launched another hunger strike campaigning against the political appointment of a new dean of the IoM, which did not reflect seniority, as well as several other grievances. Supporting this cause, the Medical Association of Nepal shut down all hospitals except for emergency services across the country. The Nepal Medical Association called for mass resignation of doctors across the country, with almost a hundred doctors and professors resigning and announcing free medical camps in public places. These collective actions appeared to have been successful, so K.C.broke his fast. Fifth, sixth, and eighth fast-unto-death

In 2015, K.C. announced a fifth hunger strike after the Nepalese government retracted from its agreement with him and his movement to regulate the opening of new medical colleges based on a report presented by a team of specialists led by Kedar Bhakta Mathema. Chitralekha Yadav, Minister for Education, was accused of having made key amendments to the law to make way for the new Devdaha and Birat Medical colleges to be granted affiliation, beginning the dispute. Law-makers led by CPN UML leader Rajendra Pandey


texts: staged protests in the Constituent Assembly demanding the affiliation to be granted before the report would be presented to the government. They also presented a document with the signatures of 146 lawmakers, mostly from the CPN UML, threatening to topple the government if affiliation was not granted. These lawmakers had stated that their investments would go in vain if they were not allowed to run a medical college.Several independent observers stated that none of the proposed medical colleges had enough manpower and that most of them did not have adequate infrastructure or patient flow. When his demands were not met, the K.C. protested peacefully with another hunger strike. His movement received widespread support from social sector activists, medical professionals and students, and artists including Nepathya and "Maha". However, there was a delay in receiving support from Nepal Medical Council and Nepal Medical Association. The Nepali prime minister, Koirala, was confronted with K.C. 's degrading health, to which he replied, "So what?", further incensing the movement. The government of Nepal responded with a committee composed of the Minister for Education Chitralekha Yadav, the Minister for Health Khagaraj Adhikari, and the Chief Secretary Lilamani Paudel. The professor refused to hold talks with the ministers as there were concerns about loopholes in the law and the government forcing its way through existing rules to grant the new medical colleges affiliation. Meanwhile, the medical community and various leaders and celebrities expressed support for the protest movement. Nepal Medical Association urged all medical services to be halted except for emergency services.


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 K.C. maintained that he was against the strike.Meanwhile, the professor's health deteriorated further. When the government of Nepal succumbed to mounting pressure and agreed to most of K.C. 's agenda, he broke his fast and the Nepal Medical Association and other supporters of the movement retracted the proposed protest measures. K.C. sat on his sixth fast unto death from 24 August 2015 to 6 September as the Nepali government, heavily influenced by politicians and merchants, tried to deregulate medical colleges by undermining the Mathema report. The fast again ended with 11 commitments from the government to keep regulations. K.C.began his eighth fast against the CIAA for the reform of medical education on 10 July 2016. Eleventh hunger strike
Dr. K.C. began his eleventh fast unto death from 24 July 2017 with a seven-point demand for medical education reform. He demanded that Kedar Bhakta Mathema lead the committee's recommendation in the forthcoming Medical Education Bill. Fourteenth hunger strike
On 8 January 2018, following the decision of the Supreme Court to reinstate Dr. Shashi Sharma as Dean of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. K.C. called a press conference to condemn the move and began his 14th hunger strike. Dr. K.C.accused the court of  "selling justice" and began his hunger strike to demand the resignation of Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli. He alleged that the Chief Justice was "a corrupt individual having links with the mafia". Since 2014, Parajuli has ruled in favor of private medical colleges and against the Nepal Medical Council, the regulatory body governing medical education in the country, with rulings favoring seven for-profit medical colleges in the country.


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 Later that evening, the Supreme Court ordered K.C's arrest for contempt of court. He was arrested by the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police from TU Teaching hospital, where the hunger strike was being staged, and taken to the Singha Durbar Police Circle. Nepal Medical Association (NMA) demanded the release of Dr. K.C. and condemned the incident.NMA stated that Dr. K.C. had brought positive changes to the medical sector through his hunger strikes. On 9 January 2018, K.C. was presented before the SC and a hearing was scheduled for 10 January. K.C. remained in custody until the hearing. In his statement at the court, K.C.stated that "Parajuli had lobbied and secured a job for his nephew at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) as the commission's legal counselor despite the SC decision in favor of the former CIAA chief commissioner Lokman Singh Karki." On 10 January 2018, he was released on a general date without bail by the Supreme Court. The Court ordered that the controversy of Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli's citizenship and the case of Dr. Shashi Sharma would be reopened. Dr. K.C. 's lawyer Surendra Bhandari stated on K.C. 's behalf that K.C.had accused the Chief Justice Parajuli of his corrupt actions. Similarly, K.C. upon his release, stated:

Fifteenth hunger strike
Dr. K.C. initiated his 15th fast-unto-death in Jumla on June 30, 2018 to protest against alterations made to the Medical Education Ordinance Replacement Bill among other issues made by the government led by K. P. Oli. Personal life
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<mask> (born September 29, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former television news anchor and a nine-time Emmy Award-winner. She is best known for her years as a prime-time weekday anchor for two different Chicago television stations. She has also appeared in several major movies (see Film credits) and at least one television dramatic series (see Television credits). She is the first African-American woman to anchor the prime-time news in Chicago. She entered the Chicago TV market as a reporter after a successful career as newspaper journalist. She earned an advanced degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York. Biography

Education
<mask> earned an undergraduate degree in politics and mass communications from Cleveland State University and a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.Career
<mask> began her career as a print journalist in Cleveland Ohio for The Plain Dealer in the late 1970s until 1980. At that time, she moved to New York and completed her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981. From 1981 until 1983, she was at WPIX. In 1983, she joined NBC-affiliated WCMH television as a general assignment reporter, where she was named news anchor in 1984. From 1985 until 2003, she was the 5pm and 10pm weekday news anchor at American Broadcasting Company (ABC) owned and operated WLS-TV Chicago, where she was Chicago's highest-paid television news professional before joining WBBM-TV in 2003 as the weekday 5pm, 6pm and 10pm news anchor, until leaving WBBM in 2008. WBBM is owned and operated by CBS (CBS Worldwide, Inc.). ABC is a division of The Walt Disney Company’s

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 Disney-ABC Television Group.Most dangerous live reports
  War-torn Somalia, where she was not embedded with US troops, but on her own. No makeup, no lighting, no running water, no teleprompters. Reporting live just outside a mobile home rigged with enough explosives to destroy an entire neighborhood in Glenview, Cook County, Illinois—the bomb was part of a booby-trap left for rescuers and police responding to the body in a suicide. Most dramatic live on-camera moments
  With Nelson Mandela during his first United States tour after his release after 27 years as a political prisoner under apartheid in South Africa. Questioning the man just arrested for (and later convicted of) murdering Michael Jordan's father. Career timeline
1974-79: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
1979–80: The Plain Dealer (newspaper) Cleveland, Ohio
1980-81: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
1981-84: WPIX Television, a Tribune company, New York, NY
1984-85: WCMH Television, an NBC affiliate, Columbus, Ohio
1985–2003: WLS Television, owned and operated by ABC, a Walt Disney Company, Chicago, Illinois
2003-08: WBBM Television, CBS-owned and operated, Chicago, Illinois
2008-2011: Next TV, Chicago Urban League, Chicago, Illinois
2011–present: Diann <mask> Media, Los Angeles, California

Awards
Among <mask>' many awards are nine Emmys - one national and eight regional. Volunteer work and philanthropy
<mask> and her charitable foundation awarded record scholarships for underprivileged students to go to college.She is the spokesperson for Pediatric Aids Chicago. She also works with Girls in the Game, an organization that promotes fitness and

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 health as a way to teach girls to persevere and gain confidence to careers. <mask> is active with the Ronald McDonald House, the Northern Illinois Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and The Support Group, an organization that assists high school students with school work and home life by providing tutoring and social services. She lends her time and talent to the benefit of numerous other causes, especially organizations that focus on children and education. Family
Until recently, <mask> and her now teen-aged son resided in Chicago's Lincoln Park, see: "Chicago TV Anchor <mask> <mask> sells her Lincoln Park Mansion for $4,525,000" - Curbed.com (paraphrased, see article). There are unconfirmed reports (not confirmed by <mask> herself) that she may be relocating to California for a career opportunity, as published in various media outlets. Film credits
<mask> appeared in several major motion pictures, playing herself, including:
Richie Rich 1994, starring Macaulay Culkin.Primal Fear (film) 1996, starring Richard Gere. The Negotiator 1998, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Televisions credits
<mask> is known to have appeared in at least one television dramatic role as someone other than herself:
Boss - 2011, episode 5, starring Kelsey Grammer, on Starz. References

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 NEW YORK TIMES: <mask> <mask> Filmography
 OBAMA's Executive Sounding Board (BUSINESSWEEK Magazine and MSNBC News)
 Starz TV Appearance for <mask> <mask> on Kelsey Grammer's BOSS (YourEntertainment)
 <mask> <mask> Gets More Than $4.5 Million For Her Lincoln Park Mansion (paraphrased) Curbed.com
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 NBC 4 - NEW YORK - $4,825,000 for a Chicago TV Anchor's Lincoln Park Mansion
 PR NewsWire: <mask> <mask> Hosts Second Season of Urban League's NextTV
 EARLIER Real Estate Deal Nets <mask> <mask> Over $1 Million (paraphrased) - Chicago Tribune
 Official Website: <mask> <mask> Live! Facebook: <mask> <mask> - Verified
 <mask> Burns Media Co. - Facebook - Verified
 Twitter: <mask> <mask> - Verified
 LinkedIn: <mask> <mask>, President Diann Burns Media Co. - Verified
 <mask> <mask>' Facebook #2
 CBS2 Chicago's 10pm ratings UP 22% since adding <mask> <mask> - HighBeam / Crain's Chicago Business (paraphrased)
 Chicago's 100 Most Influential Women - Crain's Chicago Business
 HistoryMakers - Biography: <mask> <mask>
 YAHOO! Filmography: Diann <mask>
 2nd Emmy Award Winning Season of NextTV for Diann Burns - Target Market News
 TV Guide Biography: Diann Burns
 Diann Supports American Red Cross
 News Anchor To Host URBAN LEAGUE'S Next TV Series - Chicago Defender News Company
 YAHOO! News: More Than $4.5 Million for News Anchor Diann Burns (paraphrased)
 Fox Chicago Season #2 for Diann Burns - Hip Hop Press
 SOLD!- Chicago Real Estate News Flash - from ChicagoLand Real Estate Forum (paraphrased)
 NBC 5 Chicago: $4,825,000 for a Chicago TV Anchor's Lincoln Park Mansion
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<mask> (born 1985) is an Irish-Canadian  mezzo-soprano opera singer and actress performing at leading theatres and opera companies around the world. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Ottawa to Colleen Wrighte and <mask>. She has a brother, Macallan, and a sister, Marley. Giunta sang in the Ottawa Central Children's Choir from age 9 to 15, and began voice training with Charlotte Stewart in Ottawa at age 13. She attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute, and graduated high school from Glebe Collegiate Institute. At 17, she began her post-secondary studies in voice at The University of Ottawa, completing two years. She then transferred to The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in her junior year, receiving her Performance Diploma (Voice) at age 21 and her Artist Diploma (Voice) at age 23.While a student, she achieved first place in the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Concerto Competition. She attended training programs at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Ravinia Festival, the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, the Georg Solti Accademia and the Banff Centre. She graduated from the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio in 2011, and both the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and The Juilliard School Artist Diploma in Opera Studies in 2013. She has studied extensively with both Jean MacPhail in Toronto, and Edith Wiens in New York. Career
In spring 2010, before completing her studies, <mask> made her professional debut, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Atelier and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. She spent summer 2010 at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, where she was invited to audition for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, which she joined in September 2011. Earlier in 2011, she had made her American operatic debut as Pribaoutki in the acclaimed Robert Lepage

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texts: new production of Le nozze di Figaro. That was followed at Oper Leipzig by her role debut as Siébel in Gounod's Faust, and her first Wagnerian role as Rossweise in Die Walküre. In March 2016 she made another role debut at Oper Leipzig as Angelina in La Cenerentola.She debuted in April 2016 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, followed by a debut with the Hamburger Symphoniker in May 2016, and her role debut as Mercédès in Carmen for Oper Frankfurt's new Barry Kosky staging in July 2016. In the fall of 2016, she debuted a new role at Opera Atelier, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and debuted in concert with the Munich Radio Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia. In 2017, she starred in three productions for Opera North, singing the title roles in La Cenerentola and L'enfant et les sortilèges, as well as Dinah in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, again to critical acclaim. She was recognized for her work in 2017 with awards from the International Opera Awards, WhatsOnStage Opera Awards and The Arts Desk. <mask> made her London debut at Cadogan Hall in the BBC Proms on 27 August 2018. She also made her first appearance on BBC Television as a guest on BBC Proms "Extra", live at Royal Albert Hall in August, 2018. She gave her first TEDx Talk, on embracing artistic versatility, in May 2018.She also received critical acclaim for her role as Dinah in the film version of Trouble in Tahiti, released in July 2018 by Opera North and The Guardian. She went on to debut the role of Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and the title roles in Bizet's Carmen and Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, all for Oper Leipzig. In 2019 Giunta debuted as Dodo in Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli at the Edinburgh International Festival, debuted the role of Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo for Opera Atelier, debuted at The Grange Festival as Cherubino, at the Sydney Opera House in a solo concert, and at the Royal Swedish


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 Opera and Seattle Opera as the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola. In 2020, before COVID-19 pandemic-related cancellations, Giunta also debuted at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Bradamante in Handel's Alcina, and reprised the role of Dodo in Breaking the Waves for the Adelaide Festival. Operatic roles

Giunta's repertoire includes:

 Tiffany, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Adams)
 Nancy T'ang, Nixon in China (Adams)
 Anaïs, Anaïs Nin (Andriessen)
 Sally, A Hand of Bridge (Barber)
 Gymnasiast, Lulu (Berg)
 Paquette, Candide (Bernstein)
 Dinah, Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
 Carmen/Mercédès, Carmen (Bizet)
 Hermia, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
 Nancy, Albert Herring (Britten)
 English Lady, Death in Venice (Britten)
 Pandora, Pandora's Locker (Burry) @
 Wu, Kommilitonen! Dans les pas de Cendrillon; a documentary about the history of the Cinderella story, produced by Arte; premiered January 2017. The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehár, recorded for The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series in January 2015; released on DVD and Blu-ray by Decca.Music for Great Films of the Silent Era; music by William P. Perry; recorded for Naxos Records in June 2014 with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra & Paul Phillips (conductor) in Dublin, Ireland. Une Saison a la Juilliard School; a documentary series about students at the Juilliard School, produced by Arte; released on DVD in 2013. Richard Strauss: Lieder Op. 10, 15, 17; recorded independently in July 2013, with pianist Carson Becke, in Quebec, Canada. "Opera Atelier: Don Giovanni"; a mini documentary about Mozart's title character, Don Giovanni; produced by Bravo and 90th Parallel Productions in 2010. References

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<mask>. (born April 2, 1962) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain Marvel (2019), and the television spin-off series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020). <mask> also voiced Phil Coulson on the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017) and in the video games Lego Marvel Super Heroes (2013), Marvel Heroes (2013), and Lego Marvel's Avengers (2016). <mask> is also known for his role as FBI Special Agent Mike Casper on the NBC political drama series The West Wing (2001–2004) and as Richard, the ex-husband of Christine Campbell, in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–2010). He wrote the horror film What Lies Beneath (2000), and wrote and directed the black comedy Choke (2008) and the comedy-drama Trust Me (2013). He appeared in the films The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998), One Hour Photo (2002), In Good Company (2004), When a Stranger Calls (2006), 500 Days of Summer (2009), Much Ado About Nothing (2012), The To Do List (2013), Labor Day (2013), and Live by Night (2016).Early life
<mask> was born April 2, 1962, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Layne (née Shine) and <mask> <mask>., an Episcopal priest and Stanford University professor. Because his family relocated frequently, he had lived in seven cities by the time he was 17. He attended high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his father was a professor at nearby Duke University. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. He worked various jobs, such as being a bar back, a security guard at the Guggenheim Museum, and a parking valet at a restaurant. He later enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied drama and English, and graduated in 1986. Career

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texts: off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company, which formed in 1983.<mask> has been featured in a number of supporting roles in films, such as Lovely & Amazing, The Human Stain, and In Good Company, and a number of guest spots on TV series, such as Will & Grace, Sports Night, Sex and the City and The West Wing. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath. He is the director and screenwriter of the 2008 film Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, starring Sam Rockwell. <mask> consulted his father, a retired religion professor at Stanford, for the quotation from Saint Paul's letter to the Galatians which <mask> used in Choke. <mask>'s father is also the former chaplain at Stanford Memorial Church. In 2008, <mask> appeared in the film Iron Man as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson.In 2010, <mask> reprised his role as Agent Coulson for Iron Man 2. <mask> had since signed up for a multiple film deal as the character with Marvel Studios. In 2011, he returned again as Coulson for Thor. <mask> noted his being a part of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe as being very exciting; "Agent Coulson was one of the guys who wasn't really in the comic books, and he was a very kind of small role in Iron Man," he said, "and I was just very lucky that they chose to expand that character and chose to put him more into the universe of it. It's really a blast!" Following on from his appearance in Thor, he again reprised his role in The Avengers. <mask> also stars in a series of Marvel short films that center around his character and can be seen on the Blu-ray releases of the films.In October 2010, <mask> was part of the cast of a staged reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart alongside Dylan Walsh, Lisa Kudrow, and Tate Donovan, presented in Los Angeles on the occasion of the play's 25th anniversary (and preceding the play's 2011 Broadway premiere, which retained elements of this staged reading); the reading was directed by his then-father-in-law, Joel

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 Grey. From 2013 to 2020, <mask> portrayed Agent Phil Coulson in the ABC television superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., set within the MCU, alongside Ming-Na Wen and Chloe Bennet. He also went on to direct episodes in seasons five and six. On April 20, 2013, Trust Me, a film written, produced, and directed by <mask>, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film found limited release in the United States in June 2014. <mask> reprised his role as Agent Coulson in the 2019 superhero film Captain Marvel. Personal life

<mask> married actress Jennifer Grey on July 21, 2001; the couple co-starred in the Lifetime TV movie Road to Christmas.They have a daughter Stella, born December 3, 2001. <mask> and Grey were two of the demonstrators at the 2017 Women's March held on January 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C. On July 3, 2020, Grey and <mask> announced they had separated amicably on January 18, 2020, and were in the process of divorcing. Their divorce ruling was issued in November and that became official finalized on February 16, 2021. <mask> is a sober alcoholic, and describes himself as a member of a Jewish family (his ex-wife's faith). He has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. <mask> is a cousin of New York City government official and former mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia. Filmography

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<mask> /pʊəl kraʊtʃ/ (June 24, 1903 – November 18, 1955) was a communist activist and then paid government informer regarding communist infiltration in the U.S. federal government. <mask> biographer Gregory Taylor has called him a "naïve, ill-educated recruit" to the Communist Party. Oppenheimer biographers Bird and Sherwin have claimed that he was the "most highly paid" informer for the Justice Department in 1951-1952. Background

<mask> was born in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, on June 24, 1903. Career

Communism

<mask> was a worker, secretary, and newspaper editor. In April 1924, he joined the U.S. Army. While stationed in Hawaii, he formed a Hawaiian Communist League (1924-1927) with 75 other soldiers and supported a local strike on a sugar plantation.On February 17, 1925, the military arrested the group and singled out <mask> as their leader. After discharging the others, they sentenced him to 40 years of hard labor. <mask> contacted Upton Sinclair, who gained support from the Daily Worker newspaper and the International Labor Defense (ILD), both affiliates of the nascent Communist Party. Thanks to the efforts of ILD lawyer Austin Lewis, <mask> served another 24 months in Alcatraz on a commuted three-year sentence. <mask> emerged on June 1, 1927, as a "national cause célèbre" to the Communist Party, thanks to the Daily Worker. <mask> moved to New York City, where he joined the Workers Party of America. He worked at the Daily Worker, where he met Whittaker Chambers on staff.The Party sent him with George Mink on a mission to Moscow from December 1927 to April 1928. He attended the Sixth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. He attended what he later called the  "Frunze Institute." In Moscow, he met Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, Klara Zetkin,

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 and "Big" Bill Haywood. He also meet Sam Darcy there. <mask> returned from Moscow, charged with fomenting national self-determination of African Americans in the "Black Belt" of the American South — from the states of Maryland to Texas. Practically speaking, the American party supported African Americans legally (see Scottsboro Case) but did not go so far as to promote national self-determination.Following the defeat of the CPUSA ticket for the 1928 Presidential Election of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, <mask> toured the South but found little support except in North Carolina. He supported the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. He supported the National Textile Workers’ Union (NTWU, now TWUA). He also worked on a strike in Norfolk, Virginia, under the name "Fred Allen." He later claimed to have served the CPUSA as:
 1933-1934:  Utah state organizer
 1934-1937:  Carolina state organizer
 1938-1939:  Alabama state organizer (and editor of the ‘’New South’’)
 1939-1941:  Tennessee state organizer
 1941-1942:  Alameda Country, California, organizer

Anti-communism

<mask> claimed to have broken from the CPUSA in January 1942, although the Party renewed his membership for 1943. During five years as a paid government informer, he testified regarding Robert Oppenheimer, Harry Bridges, Charlie Chaplin, William Remington, Milton A. Abernethy, and many others as Communists.He alleged that Communist conspiracy had reached the White House and inspired the civil rights movement. During his testimony on May 6, 1949, he spoke at length about efforts by the CPUSA to continue to infiltrate the U.S. Army. He also mentioned alleged communists known to him, including Harry Bridges (strike organizer), William Schneiderman (California CP), Robert Oppenheimer (atomic scientist),

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 including Haakon Chevalier (translator). Clearly, the committee tried to connect <mask> to the Hiss Case. During the years 1934-1937, he testified that he had worked under J. Peters, Max Bedacht, daughter Elsa Bedacht, and Peter's replacement Rudy Baker. He knew George Mink. He also knew Alexander Trachtenberg well.(Bedacht and Peters recruited Whittaker Chambers to the underground, while George Mink was an early underground comrate. Chambers’ wife Esther Shemitz illustrated a book for International Publishers.) However, he did not know Isaac Folkoff or William Edward Crane (AKA Irving Keith), people in one of Chambers’ earlier networks. (It is worth noting that J. Peters, already under federal investigation, left the U.S. permanently on May 8, 1949, two days after <mask>'s testimony.) During 1951-1952, <mask> was the "most highly paid" informer for the Justice Department and earned $9,675 (more than $87,000 in inflation-adjusted 2016 dollars) during those two years. During the same period, he lectured across the U.S., sometimes with his wife Sylvia and fellow informant Louis Budenz. In 1953, <mask> testified in a deportation hearing of Jacob Burck that he had often seen Burck at Communist Party meetings, yet failed to correctly identify him at that hearing.Discredited

On January 5, 1953, an appeals board overturned a decision regarding the loyalty of Mary Dublin Keyserling, wife of Leon Keyserling, both New Deal economists. Both Keyserlings resigned from government on January 9. <mask>, J. B. Matthews, and Senator Joseph McCarthy were their chief accusers. Reporters Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, and Drew Pearson began to challenge <mask>'s testimony. (I. F. Stone joined in March 1954.) Within a few months, Justice stopped using <mask> as a witness.In 1955, supreme court justices agreed

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 that <mask> and Manning Johnson had made allegations under perjury. Death

<mask> died on November 18, 1955, at the hospital of the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, California, of cancer of the throat and bronchial tubes. Legacy
At his death, one of the people whom he had accused wrote:  In his testimony before the Courts, Congressional Committees, and Loyalty Boards, <mask> did just what he was hired to do and, whatever may be said about him, he gave his employers full value of what they wanted of him. He died lonely and despised by those who used him. Those who hired him remain respectable and powerful. They used him and when he was no longer useful they threw him aside. There are plenty of others to take his place.His very death was a final act of service to his hirers, for by it he became purged of his evil doing and they, of their responsibility for using him, for of the dead we should speak only good. Our Attorney General will now be spared the embarrassment of answering questions about the progress of his long delayed "study" of <mask>'s conflicting testimony or about what is being done to right the wrongs done his victims. Works

 ‘’Broken Chains’’ (unpublished manuscript about his CPUSA career 1925-1942)

Images

 <mask> testifies against Clarence Hiskey
 <mask> 1951 (Getty Images)

See also

 Elizabeth Bentley
Louis Budenz
 Harvey Matusow
 Manning Johnson
 Herbert Philbrick
 William Remington
 Milton A. Abernethy
 Anti-communism

References

External sources

 <mask> (1903-1955) East Carolina University

1903 births
1955 deaths
American spies for the Soviet Union
American communists
McCarthyism
Members of the Workers Party of the United States
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<mask> (c. 1824 – unknown) was a 19th-century Black (African American and Native American) educator and author. She was the second woman of color to publish a book in the United States and the first to publish a book of essays and poems. As a young Black girl writing in the 19th century, <mask> has been described as an heir to Phillis Wheatley, who wrote her first published poem at the age of 13 in 1766. There is little biographical information on <mask>, and most of her life is known from her only published work, Essays; including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, which included the preface written by Reverend James W. C. Pennington, an abolitionist leader in Hartford, Connecticut, and a pastor. Early years
<mask> was born around 1820 or 1824 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was most likely the eldest daughter of Henry and <mask>. In the 1828 Hartford City Directory, <mask> was listed as a laborer and <mask> was listed as a seamstress, living at 23 Elm Street. Her father was a farmer, and she had one sister, as well as a brother who died young.As is the case with many people of color who lived in America during the 1800s, there exists very little information about her. Most of what is known about her comes from the introduction of her book, written by Reverend James W. C. Pennington, pastor of the Colored Congregational Church of Hartford and the first black man to attend classes at Yale University. Pennington was an important influence for <mask> as an educator. In her book's introduction, Pennington wrote of <mask>: "My authoress is a colored lady, a member of my church, of pleasing piety

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 and modest worth." Teacher and writer
<mask> taught at the Free African Schools, housed in the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church from 1840 until 1847. She was a member of the Talcott Street Congregational Church in Hartford. In 1841, at the age of 16, she published her only known book, entitled Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry.The essays reflected the New England Puritan values of her environment. Topics included "Benevolence," "Education," "Employment," and "Religion." The essays stressed both the importance of education and of leading a pious, industrious life. The book also contained some poetry and biographies of departed female friends and acquaintances. Some critics from later generations found <mask>'s essays and poetry to be overly moralizing as well as routine and lacking in originality. Many of them also derided her for not mentioning the issue of slavery in America, as did some of her near contemporaries including Frances Harper and Charlotte Forten Grimke. <mask>'s one reference to slavery in her book concerns its abolition in the West Indies in 1838 (perhaps a reference to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 valid throughout the British Empire).She does, however, emphasize the equality of people, regardless of race, a few times in the Essays. Nothing is known about <mask>'s life after her book was published in 1841. Furthermore, the year of her death cannot be found. However, Ron Welburn in his book Hartford's <mask> and the Native Borders of Identity (SUNY Press, 2015) records that in the 1870 Iowa Federal census a 46-year-old woman called "<mask>" who may well be

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 <mask> is listed as residing in Decorah Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa. Legacy
In 1988, Oxford University Press released The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers with Professor Henry Louis Gates as the general editor of the series. <mask>'s book was reprinted as a part of this collection. Trinity College, Connecticut, established the <mask> Fellowship in her honor in 1988.Quotes
"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be." –<mask>

"A good education is another name for happiness" –<mask>

"Although there are many nations, and many stations in life, yet he watches over us, he has given us immortal souls. Some have white complexions, some are red, like our wandering natives, others have sable or olive complexions. But God hath made of one blood all who dwell upon the face of the earth." –<mask>, "Benevolence," Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces of Prose and Poetry

Published work
Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces of Prose and Poetry (1841), contains four biographical compositions, 16 very short essays, and 20 poems and is sectioned off into three parts: "Prose," "Biographies," and "Poetry." This collection reflects <mask>'s work and interest in the antebellum schoolroom as well as her relationship to religion. The prose section reflects <mask>’s ideas about education and how Christian principals are infused in the classroom.<mask> uses the

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 eulogies of four Black girls, Louisa Sebury, <mask> Pell, Eliza Loomis Sherman, and Elizabeth Low, who most likely died of consumption, to present a template on how to live a "legible" righteous life. Finally, her poetry section is a collection of poetry that further considers life, death, and suffering. References

Sources
 Bassard, Katherine Clay. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African Women's Writing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. .
 Shockley, <mask>. Afro-American Women Writers 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide, New Haven, Connecticut: Meridian Books, 1989. Wright, Michelle Diane.Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought. Three Sistahs Press, 2007. Further reading
Robinson, William H., editor. Early Black American Poets, Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Publishers, 1969. Sherman, Joan R. Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1974. Welburn, Ron. Hartford's <mask> Plato and the Native Borders of Identity, SUNY Press, 2015. .External links
 Online edition of "Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry"
 Essays by <mask> at Quotidiana.org
 Information about the Ann Plato Fellowship
 Location of an edition of <mask>'s book
 Home page for The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

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Bertlies "<mask><mask> (born Berta Weinschenk: 21 December 1914 – 27 November 2005) was a German-American pianist, chorus singer and musical stage performer. In 1945 she took a job as  rehearsal pianist, coach, understudy or multi-tasking "swing-girl" for The Firebrand of Florence, a Kurt Weill musical making its Broadway debut. This proved to be the start of a new career as Weill's musical assistant: from that point a principal focus of her professional life was on the composer and, more particularly after his early death in 1950, the career of his widow, the stage performer Lotte Lenya. When Lenya died, in 1981, <mask>tte was appointed vice-president of the Kurt Weill Foundation, also serving as its "musical executive". When she died her friend and frequent collaborator, Prof. Kim H. Kowalke, published an affectionate tribute in which he described her as "the last and irreplaceable link to the inner artistic circle of Weill and Lenya". Life

Provenance and early years
Berta Elisabeth Weinschenk was born in Mainz. Max Weinschenk, her father, was a Jewish wine merchant.Her mother, born Gertrude Metzger, was a committed singer who, as a contralto, gave recitals not just in her home city but also in Frankfurt and Gotha. There was musicianship on her father's side too: Jacob Hugo Weinschenk, her uncle, was an enthusiastic 'cellist (who also wrote sonnets). Bertlies (as she quickly came to be known) grew up with her parents and her younger sister, Marianne, at the family home at "Fischtor 21" in Mainz. An early blow was the death of her father when she was eleven. Almost at once, however, Bertlies and Marianne found they had acquired a (Christian) stepfather, Dr. Willi Honheisser. She attended the "Linkenbach" private school and then, between 1924 and 1934, the

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 Senior Girls' School in Mainz. She passed her school final exams (Abitur) in 1934.She had not excelled particularly at mathematics and the sciences, but at the Senior School she had obtained top marks in singing and shown herself to be more than competent as a pianist. Her exam results in 1934 would, under other circumstances, have opened the way to university level education, but it was at this time still unusual for girls to attend university and the times were, in any case, malign. Nevertheless, at some point she was taught by Lothar Windsperger at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz, and she briefly moved to Berlin to embark on a period as a music student, studying both the piano and singing. Nazi takeover
At the start of 1933 the Nazi Party took power in Weimar Germany and lost little time in transforming the country into a one-party dictatorship. The shrill antisemitism which had featured prominently in Nazi propaganda during the preceding decade became a key underpinning of government policy. During 1933 and 1934 many believed that the government, like others before it, would not last, but four years later the Nazis were still in control. At this stage arrest and imprisonment were still, for the most part, restricted to those Jews who were politically active: nevertheless, employment and business opportunities were being systematically cut away.In September 1933 Bertlies Weinschenk obtained an exit visa and relocated with her family, briefly, to Cologne where her sister had found a job in the garments industry. In 1936 she fled via Italy to Cuba. Bertlies would later recall that on the day they left Cologne she opened the balcony window of the hotel room where she was staying and played records of music from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera – which had


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 been banned in Germany since 1933 – for the benefit of passers-by. From Cuba, helped by American contacts, she was able to obtain the necessary permits to enter the United States of America towards the end of 1937. In 1938 she was joined in the U.S. by her younger sister, who had managed to make the journey from Nazi Germany with fewer hold-ups. New life in the United States
It was also in 1938 that Bertlies Weinschenk enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where, as before, she studied as both a piano and a voice student. She received a stipendium which funded her studies and covered her living expenses.Her teachers included Vera Brodsky and Elisabeth Schumann. Someone else whom she met at the Curtis was Ned Rorem, a composition student from the mid-west: she became the first singer to perform Rorem's songs in public. After graduating, during the early 1940s she performed regularly in clubs across the country as part of the two-piano combo "Yola and Lisa, the Mexican sisters" with Alberta Masiello, for which the two young women dressed "appropriately", "with big skirts and big earrings". The story is told of one night when the "sisters" were hired to perform at a club venue precariously located at the end of a pier in Galveston: they played on through a hurricane in order to avoid foregoing their fee. Kurt Weill and Randolph Symonette
It was Maurice Abravanel who recommended her to Kurt Weill as a rehearsal pianist for his new 1945 Broadway musical, The Firebrand of Florence. Abravanel was the conductor for the original production. As she would later laconically recall, Abravenal "suspected that [she] might be able to do the job, having been both a voice and piano major at the Curtis ...".After three days of


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 "sight-reading-transposing-improvising" as she provided accompaniment for what felt like a never ending succession of auditioneers, a small man emerged, grinning, from the shadows of the auditorium: "I'd love to have you in the show. I'm Kurt Weill". Until Weill's early death in 1950 she worked closely with him. Using the stage name "<mask> Bert" she appeared in the chorus. On the occasion of Lotte Lenya's Broadway debut, the great diva (still relatively unknown outside Germany) was to be preceded by Billy Dee Williams singing "Make Way for the Duchess", but Williams found himself unable to maintain his pitch that night and the song was instead sung offstage by
the "boyish-sounding soprano", "Lisa Bert" (as she was listed on that occasion). Despite participating in stage performances, it appears that her more crucial contribution quickly became as a répétiteuse and as a coach for the singers. She evidently had an intense understanding of the singular singing style that Weill's music invited and, she would have insisted, needed.In 1949 she embarked on a parallel role as a translator, applying her skills to the libtretto of Weill's 1927 one-act comic opera, Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (The Czar Has His Photograph Taken) for the Metropolitan Opera studio. The part of the Hangman in the original production of The Firebrand of Florence had been taken by a New York bass-baritone called Randolph Symonette. In October 1949, Lost in the Stars opened on Broadway. Her rehearsal work done, <mask> left for an extended visit to Canada where she married "The Hangman". They returned to New York in March 1950: when <mask> Symonette tried to telephone him that she was back, the telephone was answered by a maid who told her that "Mr Weill" was in hospital. He died a few

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 days later. This triggered a major turning point.Randolph and <mask> Symonette now relocated to West Germany where Randolph Symonette appeared in various major opera houses, focusing on some of the large-voice Wagner roles. Initially he spoke absolutely no German and his new wife had to coach him phonetically for his roles. During the 1953/54 season <mask> was able to return with her husband to Mainz where he appeared at the recently reopened Staatstheater. During their time living in West Germany she also promoted Weill's later works in that country "through ingenious translations and ceaseless proselytizing". Return to New York
Ten years later the couple returned to New York City. Over the next few years Randolph made a number of further appearances at the Metropolitan Opera. <mask> appeared with Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya at the Theatre de Lys, accompanying the singer in Gene Frankel's production, Brecht on Brecht.Over the next couple of decades she worked closely with Lenya as accompanist, trusted musical advisor and, at least on matters touching Kurt Weill's artistic legacy, friend and mentor. She persuaded Lenya to allow her to hand over a fat pile of unpublished Kurt Weill songs to Teresa Stratas which led to the publication of numerous songs that otherwise would have been lost to posterity including, most notably, "Youkali". In 1968 the Symonettes relocated to Tallahassee where Randolph had accepted a teaching job – later a professorship – at Florida State University. Two years after that she was drawn back to New York in order to be at the side of Lotte Lenya during preparations for an English-language premiere of Weill's "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" ("Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"). Preparation of the opera had been dogged by


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 artistic and legal disagreement, and Symonette reprised her role as "musical representative" of Lotte Lenya for rehearsals and performances. In the end credit for the translation of the libretto was shared between <mask> Symonette and the poet Arnold Weinstein. As the 1970s progressed the amount of time spent supporting Lotte Lenya increased.Additionally, in 1974 <mask> Symonette returned to the Curtis Institute, now as a voice coach. During the decade she collaborated on several new Weill productions and engaged in other projects which involved the publication and, frequently, the performance of hitherto unknown Kurt Weill songs. Later years and the Kurt Weill Foundation
Lotte Lenya died of cancer on 27 November 1981. She had been ill for several years, undergoing surgery in 1977 and again in 1978, and had initially avoided the implications of her failing health for her late husband's artistic legacy. However, by the later summer of 1980 she had been persuaded to give the matter serious consideration, and on 25 September a board of six trustees was elected for the newly established "Kurt Weill Foundation". The six included Kim Kowalke, today (2017) the foundation's long-standing president and, <mask> Symonette who for a quarter of a century, till her death would serve as the foundation's vice-president. When Lenya died the foundation's mandate to "administer, promote, and perpetuate "the legacies of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya" was confirmed in her will.<mask> Symonette suffered a fatal heart attack at Windsor, New York less than a month before what would have been her ninety-first birthday. References
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<mask> (30 March 1922 – 24 July 2011) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991. Early life and ministry
<mask> was born in 1922 in Zelata di Bereguardo, Lombardy. He studied at the Seminary of Pavia and was ordained a priest on 1 October 1944 by the Bishop of Pavia, Carlo Allorio. After ordination he became parish priest of the parish of San Salvatore in Pavia and founded a youth association to promote participation in the liturgy. In 1948, Bishop Allorio sent him to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he earned a doctorate in ecclesiastical history in 1952, with a thesis entitled "The Religious Policies of the Lombard Kings". He taught Ecclesiastical History, Patristics, Liturgy and Art History in the seminaries of Pavia and Tortona.He was also spiritual director in the Collegio Sant'Agostino and the Collegio San Giorgio, and played a leading role in the diocesan liturgical commission. Among the projects undertaken were diocesan Eucharistic Congresses in 1956 and 1964. Activity in Rome

In the years 1964–1969, starting therefore during the period of the Second Vatican Council, he was in charge of the national Centro di Azione Liturgica (Centre for Liturgical Action) in Rome, and editor of its journal Liturgia. He was also lecturer in Sacred Art at the recently founded Pontifical Liturgical Institute of  Sant'Anselmo in the city, and when a commission was formed to revise the papal liturgical celebrations, he was made a member. From 1966 to 1968 he also served as vice-rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome. When the Sacred Congregation

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 partial internal organizations of the Roman Curia. When in the summer of 1975 the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship was amalgamated with the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments (Sacra Congregatio de Disciplina Sacramentorum) (founded in 1908 by Pope Pius X) to form a Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship (Sacra Congregatio de Sacramentis et Cultu Divino), Mons. Noè was appointed Undersecretary in charge of liturgical affairs. Archbishop and Cardinal

On 30 January 1982, Noè was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and made Titular Archbishop of Voncaria.He was ordained a bishop on 6 March 1982 in St. Peter's Basilica by Pope John Paul II, assisted by Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Antonio Giuseppe Angioni, Bishop of Pavia. Between 1984 and 1988 the dicastery was briefly redivided into the Congregation for the Sacraments (Congregatio de Sacramentis) and the  Congregation for Divine Worship  (Congregatio de Cultu Divino) under a single Prefect. In this new version of the latter, Archbishop Noè was the sole Archbishop Secretary, according to the classic system. Then, as a result of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus of 1988, this move was reversed and there emerged the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments  (Sacra Congregatio de Cultu Divino de et Disciplina Sacramentorum), which still exists. In this new entity,  Archbishop Noè was no longer the sole Archbishop Secretary, but reverted to being once more Archbishop Secretary but in charge of a distinct section for Divine Worship.


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 On 15 May 1989, Noè was named Coadjutor Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, giving him the right to succeed the ailing Cardinal Aurelio Sabattani in that position. At the same time he was appointed Delegate of the Fabric of St. Peter, a body he could expect to head as Archpriest.Noè was made Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana in the consistory of 28 June 1991 by Pope John Paul II. Three days later, upon the retirement of Cardinal Sabattani, he was made Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, President of the Fabric of St. Peter, and Vicar General of Vatican City. From 1993 to 1996 he was also President of the Cardinalatial Commission for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompei, Loreto and Bari. After 10 years as Cardinal-Deacon, Noè took the option of elevation to the rank of Cardinal-Priest with the titular church of Regina Apostolorum as of 26 February 2002. He once said that Pope Paul VI spoke of the "smoke of Satan" when referring to priests who celebrated Mass badly. Death and Burial
On 24 July 2011, Cardinal Noè died in Rome at the age of 89. His funeral Mass was celebrated on 26 July 2011 in the apse of  St. Peter's Basilica, by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals and concelebrated by a large number of Cardinals and bishops.He is buried in the cemetery of Campo Verano, Rome. Notes

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<mask> (原口健飛, born 9 April 1998) is a Japanese kickboxer. He is the 2019 RISE Lightweight champion and the 2020 Dead or Alive Lightweight tournament winner. <mask> began his career competing in karate and amateur kickboxing, before transitioning to professional boxing in 2015, at the age of 17. Two years later, he returned to kickboxing and made his professional debut in 2017. As of May 2021, Combat Press ranks him as the #3 super bantamweight kickboxer in the world. Combat Press has ranked him in the Super Bantamweight top ten since November 2020. Personal life
<mask> married at the age of 19.He is a father of two daughters. His first daughter, Noa, was born when he was 17 and a second-year in high school. Kickboxing career

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ACCEL Featherweight title reign
<mask> made his professional debut against Shiro Kajihara at All Boxing World 10th. He won the fight by a third round technical knockout. His debut win, as well as his boxing and karate career, earned <mask> the chance to fight Fumihiro Uesugi at ACCEL vol.37, in Uesugi's fifth title defense. During the first round of their bout, Uesugi looked to push into the pocket behind a high guard, however, <mask> kept distance with a front kick and racked up damage with body kicks. Near the end of the first round, <mask> staggered his opponent with a left hook and knocked him down through a combination of punches.<mask> immediately pressured as the second round began, thoroughly dominating the champion and forcing him to take a knee three times,

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 which awarded Hariguchi the technical knockdown. <mask> participated in the RISE Dead or Alive 57 kg tournament, held at RISE 121. He was scheduled to fight Taiki Naito in the quarterfinals. The fight was ruled a draw after the first three rounds, which resulted in an extra fourth round being fought. Naito won the extra round by unanimous decision. <mask> was scheduled to make his first title defense against Shogo Kuriaki at ACCEL vol.38. Although the fight was close, <mask> won the fight by unanimous decision, with all the judges awarding him all three rounds.He returned to RISE at RISE 132, when he was scheduled to fight the #6 ranked RISE Super Featherweight Jun Aiolos. <mask> dominated the bout, knocking Aiolos down twice in the first round and twice in the second round, before Aiolos' corner threw in the towel. <mask> was scheduled to fight Henry Cejas in a non-title bout at ACCEL vol.39. <mask> fought mainly off the back-foot, slowly accumulating damage on his opponent, before knocking Cejas out with a jumping switch kick at the very end of the third round. Road to RIZIN
<mask> was scheduled to participate in the Road to RIZIN Tournament, held during RISE 125. He was scheduled to fight the WBC Muaythai International Featherweight champion Momotaro in the semifinals, with the other semifinal bout being contested by Shuto Miyazaki and Yamato Fujita. <mask> beat Momotaro by a closely contested unanimous decision, with all three judges awarding him a single round, while scoring the other two

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 rounds as draws.He was more dominant in the final bout against Shuto Miyazaki, winning once again by unanimous decision (30-26, 30-28 and 30-27). Winning the tournament earned him the opportunity to fight at the next RIZIN event. <mask> was scheduled to make his second title defense against Chibita at ACCEL vol.40. Early on in the first round, <mask> landed a body kick which broke Chibita's ribs, while a second kick to the body resulted in the first knockdown of the fight. <mask> kept kicking Chibita's body which resulted in a knockout 90 seconds into the fight. <mask> made his RIZIN debut at RIZIN 13, when he was scheduled to fight the former K-1 Super Featherweight champion Taiga Kawabe. The closely contested fight was ruled a majority draw, with one of the three judges awarding <mask> a 30-29 scorecard.RISE
<mask> was scheduled to fight the ISKA Spain K-1 and Muay Thai champion Miguel Martinez during the opening round of the 2019 RISE World Series. The fight ended after just 25 seconds, as <mask> knocked Martinez out with a body kick. <mask> was next scheduled to fight against the #2 ranked RISE lightweight Tomohiro Kitai at RISE 132. <mask> made use of his superior speed and outfighting ability to win by unanimous decision, winning all three rounds on the judges scorecards. In the semifinal event of the RISE World Series, <mask> faced Lu Jun. Jun came into the fight 0.8 kg over the weight limit. He was given a one point deduction and heavier gloves as a penalty for the weight miss.<mask>

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 managed to stagger Jun with a head kick at the very beginning of the match, before knocking him out after only 67 seconds of the first round. At Rise World Series 2019 Final Round, <mask> was scheduled to fight the 2017 RISE Super Featherweight champion Chan Hyung Lee. <mask> was dominant throughout the fight, winning the fight by unanimous decision. Two of the judges awarded him 30-27 on their scorecards, with the last one awarding him a 30-28 scorecard. On September 1, 2019, <mask> was scheduled to fight the former KNOCK OUT Lightweight champion Yosuke Morii at JAPAN KICKBOXING INNOVATION, in a five round fight with elbows allowed. <mask> looked to push the pace, pressuring Morii with kicks, with Morii looking to relive the pressure through clinch work. <mask> scored the first knockdown in the second round with a right hook.Less than 30 seconds into the third round, <mask> once again scored a knockdown with a right hook. Although Morii was able to beat the eight count, the referee nonetheless decided the wave the fight off. RISE Lightweight champion

<mask> vs. Hideki
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<mask> was scheduled to fight Chadd Collins in the semifinals of the 2020 RISE World Series tournament. The other two semifinalists were Nuenglanlek Jitmuangnon and Taiju Shiratori. The RISE World Series tournament was later scrapped, as Collins and Nuenglanlek were unable to enter the country at the time, due to travel restrictions imposed in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. <mask> was instead scheduled to fight Vitor Tofanelli at Rise on Abema, in a 67kg bout, 4 kilograms above <mask>'s usual weight. <mask> won the fight by unanimous decision, utilizing outfighting to score on the advancing Tofanelli. <mask> vs. Taiga II
<mask> was scheduled to fight a rematch with Taiga Kawabe at Rizin 23 – Yokohama.Their first match at Rizin 13 was ruled a draw. Since their first fight, <mask> had won all seven of his fights, while Taiga entered the fight with only a single win in past seven fights. <mask> dominated the entirety of the bout, knocking Taiga down three times in less than three minutes, winning the fight by a technical knockout. RISE Dead or Alive Tournament
His position as the RISE Lightweight champion earned <mask> a place in the 2020 RISE Dead of Alive 63 kg tournament, being scheduled to fight the 2018 SHOOT BOXING

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 Japan Lightweight Champion Renta Nishioka in the semifinals. The two other participants in the tournament were Naoki Tanaka and Taiju Shiratori, with <mask> and Shiratori being the favorites to enter the tournament final. In the semifinals bout, <mask> beat Renta Nishioka through a dominant unanimous decision, justifying his role as the favorite. <mask> then faced Naoki Tanaka in the finals.He immediately pressured Tanaka backwards with a combination of body-head punches and managed to knock Tanaka down, after successfully pushing his opponent into the ring corner. Although Tanaka managed to beat the eight-count, the referee decided to wave the fight off due to Tanaka being unsteady on his feet. <mask> was awarded ¥5,000,000 for winning the tournament, as well as a ¥500,000 knockout bonus. During the post-fight interview, <mask> reiterated his desire to fight Taiju Shiratori, with RISE president Takashi Ito likewise stating that the <mask>-Shiratori bout was in their 2021 plans. Post-title reign

<mask> vs Shiratori
On December 15, 2020, <mask> vacated the RISE Lightweight title, stating that he wanted to focus on a planned RISE Dead or Alive tournament. <mask> was scheduled to fight the Glory featherweight champion Petpanomrung Kiatmuu9 at RISE El Dorado in February 2021. Petpanomrung was unable to enter Japan, as the travel restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic were extended from February 7th to March 7th.He was accordingly replaced by the 2019 RISE Lightweight Champion Taiju

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