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...authority, so he got the BBC to let him do a Letter from America, in which he'd talk for 15 minutes a week on whatever he liked; that gig lasted for 58 years. What he didn't like was his drab name, Albert, so he changed it to Alistair. Alistair Cooke...
...Americans of a certain age remember Cooke as the host of Masterpiece Theater from its inception in 1970 till 1992, and the writer-presenter of Alistair Cooke's America. These PBS series made Cooke, in the words of Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton, the "rock star" of educational television. On Sesame Street, a famous Muppet became "Alistair Cookie" on Monsterpiece Theater, and in Peanuts Snoopy imagined himself as "Alistair Beagle." Cooke died in 2004, at 95, and would have been 100 this past Thursday. In celebration, Masterpiece is running an hour-long biography, The Unseen Alistair Cooke, this Sunday, with...
...This was his first collegiate singles tournament. He played four matches in two days, and even though he ran out of gas in the end, we are enormously pleased with his performance. His was the best story of the weekend.” It was freshman Alistair Felton who bested Vegosen in the end in their semifinal match. Despite his inexperience, Felton made quick work of his opponents, and with the win over Vegosen, secured himself a position in the final. In the end, Felton was bested by Chaloupkha, 6-4 6-4. “In the second...
...firm ING. Because Landsbanki had over 300,000 British depositors through its Icebank subsidiary, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government used anti-terrorist legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK, including property of the Icelandic Central Bank. Just a few days later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling added fuel to the fire when he said on BBC Radio that the Icelandic Finance minister had told him that the Icelandic government did not plan to honor British deposits after nationalization, an allegation later found to be utterly false from the conversation transcripts. Amidst these incredible circumstances...
...making it to the fourth round in the singles tournament, but in the end, he was bested by third seed Peter Capkovic from Princeton in three sets (7-6, 4-6, 6-2). Other competitors in singles for the Crimson included junior Michael Hayes, freshman Davis Mangham, and freshman Alistair Felton, all of whom went 1-1. In doubles, Hayes and Mangham lost in their first-round match, while Ermakov and junior Spencer Vegosen reached the semi-finals, an impressive collegiate debut for Vegosen...