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  • After spending 10 years under Vernon's tutelage, Mr. Diaconis returned home to New York and enrolled in night school, eventually earning a full ride to a Ph.D. program in mathematics at Harvard.

    Pick a Card, Any Card Alex Stone 2011

  • Similar to the HBO show "Entourage," Mr. Vernon's crew includes his brother and co-manager Nate, his other co-manager Kyle Frenette and his sound engineer Brian Joseph.

    A Little Whiskey and Some Friends Jen Wieczner 2012

  • He was Vernon's city manager, city clerk, finance director, treasurer, redevelopment agency secretary and director of light and power.

    State and local workers: Gone but not off the books 2011

  • Facing it, not visible from these angles, are a bunch of Ursula Vernon's strange fruit pictures.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • But once again, the Grammys defy common sense, and not only when it nominates Justin Vernon's Bon Iver as Best New Artist when his debut album came out almost four years ago.

    The Grammys Again Defy Common Sense Jim Fusilli 2012

  • Joseph Drake, in an impressive professional debut, conveys Vernon's agility and alienation and there is cracking support from Lily James as both the good and bad girls in his life, from Clare Burt as his materialist mom and Daniel Cerqueira as a paedophile psychiatrist who runs a website known as "Bambi Boy Butt Bazaar."

    Vernon God Little - review 2011

  • Everyone tries to get in on Vernon's supposed guilt, from the townsfolk who stage a hoedown in honour of the dead to a rapacious TV repair man who poses as an on-the-spot reporter.

    Vernon God Little - review 2011

  • Martha Washington even named one of Mount Vernon's tomcats Hamilton.

    A Short History of Political Suicide 2011

  • And, although the play offers the humanist message that what matters is how you treat the living, sentimentality is kept at bay by the reminder that Vernon's mum is more concerned with the arrival of her new fridge than her son's possible execution.

    Vernon God Little - review 2011

  • Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall): Despite getting an F in shop class, Brian wrote a brilliant college-application essay inspired by his poignant response to Principal Vernon's detention-day assignment to the group (a 1,000-word paper answering the question: Who do you think you are?).

    'The Breakfast Club' at 25: Where are Claire, Andy, Brian, John and Allison? Susannah Gora 2010

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