Word: alberts
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There were others, like Eric D. Albert '98, who had more serious issues with the coverage of the alleged rape or the story on "solicitation" by orthodox Jews. Yet others felt there wasn't enough coverage of certain sports like golf or squash, of events happening on weekends because The Crimson doesn't publish on Saturday and Sunday, or of student group activities. These are certainly more fundamental concerns, less easy to brush aside. And then there were some that veered into the realm of the holistically uncomplimentary, the vitriolic and the profane. I received the following: "I never read...
...comes to the U.S. after much success in Europe and London, where it won an Olivier Award for Best Comedy of 1996 and provided a vehicle for such fine actors as Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. It has been eagerly awaited by Broadway: finally, in a season when big musicals are getting all the buzz, a straight play with a chance of becoming a hot ticket. The U.S. cast boasts at least one marquee name--Alan Alda, who plays Marc with a few too many sitcom inflections--along with two solid co-stars, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina. Director Matthew...
...DIED. ALBERT LIPPERT, 72, diet-business fat cat who, as a founder of Weight Watchers, turned a flair for business and an expanding girth into a menu for success; in South Africa. While dieting in 1963, Lippert decided to market his regimen, ultimately spawning national franchises, a frozen-food line, and a new obsession with the scale...
...says he also selected the story as a tribute to Holton and his scholarship on Albert Einstein. "Holton is one of the leading historians on Einstein," Herschbach says. "And Stern, some call him the first pupil of Einstein...
...almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...