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“His own biography — born in India, sent to Burma as a young soldier, doing what he did there and being ashamed of it — drew him closer to my own experience,” Peck says.

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A biography on the school district's website says that "he was born to immigrant parents from Guyana, and spent most of his formative years in Brooklyn, NY".

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Until recently, Stringer’s biography was fairly standard for a Hollywood transplant.

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The Defense Department purges images, biographies and histories that reference the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

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According to a friendly biography, he reorganized the prison library and renovated the prison pond, and cleared brush from the grounds.

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