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...Alastair Iain Johnston, formerly Loeb associate professor of government, has been granted tenure in the government department...
...proprietary items as engines and overall design may be up for grabs. Volvo and Renault supply each other with engines for some models, and the high-performance British motorcar company Lotus says 10% of new cars made in Europe will carry engines of Lotus design next year. Lotus spokesman Alastair Florance says the company's new modular V-8 motor can be dismantled, reconfigured, expanded or contracted to fit virtually any car. Lotus, which is owned by Malaysian carmaker Proton, earned more money advising other carmakers last year than it did selling its own legendary road burners...
...Then, of course, there's A Christmas Carol; go with Alastair Sim as the bullied, bollixed and bejeebered Scrooge. He's just a crabby old guy with low heating bills and a profitable money-counting operation--where's the crime in that?--until the three ghosts take turns leaning on him. Personally, this tale has always rankled CP more than a little. But people seem to like...
...Alastair Still made the score 3-1 in the final minute of the second period on a rebound goal past senior goalie Steve Hermsdorf, who came into the game at the 9:58 mark of the middle stanza (or, 1:06 before the lights went out). Hermsdorf would stop eight of the 10 shots he faced...
...Daniel Day-Lewis, sharing a jail cell with his father, though the two were often not even in the same prison. A grand and heroic part is carved for actress Emma Thompson, playing Conlon's solicitor, Gareth Peirce, but in reality Peirce was a minor figure and another attorney, Alastair Logan, deserves most of the credit for freeing the Four. A pivotal scene in which Peirce smuggles a crucial piece of suppressed evidence from a police file was fabricated for the film; it was a police investigation that uncovered the buried evidence of Conlon's innocence...