Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year taking classes in the department, Allen D. Duan '95 says an engineering professor already "knew his name and knew everything about what I wanted to do and where I wanted to focus my studies...
...Allen is still learning the protocols of stardom. On a promotion tour for his new book earlier this fall, he went on a talk show and laughed about the private plane that his publisher, which is owned by Disney, was flying him around in. Known for its thriftiness, Disney hates being made to look like a typical, money-burning Hollywood studio, and a few days after Allen made his remarks, he received a curt memo from headquarters. Never brag about Disney's use of corporate jets, the company's biggest star next to Simba the Lion was told...
Good thing Allen didn't mention the new four-wheel-drive Porsche the studio just bought him. But then, the Disney comptroller can hardly complain. Allen has made a pirate's galleon of loot for the company during a year in which he has pulled off an unheard-of triple play. Home Improvement, his ABC sitcom now in its fourth season, is TV's No. 1-rated show, earning Disney $400 million thus far in the sale of reruns. His jokey autobiographical book, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, reached No. 1 on the New York Times...
Apparently, this is how things go 'on the Harvard plantation. 'It was only two and a half years ago that The Crimson launched a similar attack on another Black leader on campus, Director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations S. Allen Counter, after he had penned a letter that articulated students' concerns about the Crimson's role in exacerbating racial and ethnic tensions ("The Crimson Misinterpreted the Harvard Foundation," Opinion, April 14, 1992). In an attempt to cloud the issues, The Crimson's staff responded with an attempt at character assassination that falsely accused Counter of "anti...
...works very hard and needs a vacation," Allen Proctor, the new finance vice president, said. "It should renew him. We all need one. Presidents just don't get them very often...