Word: affair
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...taken an active stance to preserve the sanctity of public service at Harvard--an often complicated affair that includes an unprecedented presentation next week to the Faculty Council. We've allocated, after a thorough review process, more than $35,000 to 149 vibrant student groups (Odds are, you've attended a meeting of or been involved with a group that is receiving Council funding...
...vast sums that get bandied about in the press. Jackson's megadeal might, like her stage show, be partly smoke and mirrors. Record contracts, like movie deals, are often larded with clauses and subclauses that make interpreting the value of a deal a brain-wilting affair, as mystifying as the recent reports that Forrest Gump hasn't turned a profit. "When you read the fine print, you find lots of changes," says record-industry attorney Don Engel. "Some of these contracts are 80 to 100 pages. There are various ways a record company makes a $60 million deal worth...
Like his father, Teddy enjoys going to the movies. His daughter Essie not only carries on this family trait, she actually leaves home to become a 1950s Hollywood star under the name Alma DeMott. Bit parts--"as a gangster's black-haired nightclub date in Hayworth's soggy Affair in Trinidad, as one of the dance-hall 'hostesses' in From Here to Eternity"--lead to co-starring roles with the likes of Cooper, Gable and Crosby. Essie's grandmother, Clarence's widow, sees this triumph as her husband's vindication: "When Clarence--when he--fell, it was so sudden...
...investigation, this subpoena strengthens the hand of Senate Whitewater chairman Alfonse D'Amato, who will soon seek to extend the Senate investigation past the original February 29th deadline." Earlier Monday, D'Amato rebuffed Hillary Clinton's offer to provide written responses to questions about her involvement in the Whitewater affair. The Committee "looks forward to hearing Mrs. Clinton's responses," he replied, but not before the White House provides further information such as White House e-mail messages. Longtime Clinton associate Carolyn Huber described to the Whitewater Committee last week how she accidentally and unaccountably discovered Hillary Clinton's Whitewater...
Crime had been falling gently since 1989, thanks to community policing strategies, a thinning in the ranks of the crackhead army and thousands of new prison beds and new cops. But as Comstat took hold in May 1994, the drop became a giddy double-digit affair, plunging farther and faster than it has done anywhere else in the country, faster than any cultural or demographic trend could explain. For two years, crime has declined in all 76 precincts. Murder is down 39%, auto theft 35%. Robberies are off by a third, burglaries by a quarter. No wonder Comstat has become...