Word: allen
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...made money from his TBS superstation and the Atlanta Braves, bought MGM/UA, a blending of two legendary film companies - one the dominant and most glamorous studio from the '20s to the '50s, the other a kind of filmmakers' cooperative that nurtured indie-minded directors from D.W. Griffith to Woody Allen - both of which had fallen fallow. Almost instantly, Turner was obliged to sell the studios and their California real estate; but he held on to the library of 3,000 old MGM, Warner Bros., UA and RKO films. These were the programming staples for his TNT channel (Turner Network Television...
...Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor and the director of the Harvard Foundation, was stopped by police while walking through the Yard. A black high school student was confronted by HUPD officers when trying to remove a lock from his bike...
...Babich said. “So it was nice to get a couple hits that weren’t caught.”That would be as close as the Crimson would come, though, as the Big Green added four in the top of the next inning. Senior Ray Allen hit a three-run homer in the fourth after a bloop single had already scored a run.“Once you get tense and the pitches get up a little bit, they have some guys who can really drive the ball,” Walsh said.One of those hard...
...award unreasonable is different from simply finding it unpleasant. One kind of appeal no college will consider is from families who probably can afford to pay what's being asked of them - but would simply rather spend the money elsewhere. "We want to fund a family's need," says Allen. "We can't afford to fund their want...
...data that one school had not taken into consideration. "If the generous award is because the family provided additional information to the [other school's] financial-aid office that allowed a more appropriate need-based award to be made, we'll want that information as well," says Grinnell's Allen. "More times than not, we're able to improve the financial-aid award...