Word: barone
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...were barred from a White House reception for the medical students rescued during the 1983 invasion of Grenada, according to Gang of Five, author Nina Easton's chronicle of the conservative movement of that time. Soon after, Norquist and Abramoff also worked for and were later fired by drugstore baron Lewis Lehrman's conservative group Citizens for America, over what a source close to Lehrman told the Washington Post was "lavish spending...
...Black Thoughts The indictment of former media baron Conrad Black for criminal fraud [Nov. 28] was the latest chapter in a life filled with controversy. When Black published his autobiography 11 years ago, TIME assessed its author...
...fire back that he paid for the transplant and he could move his hair to anywhere he liked. And he backed dairy price supports at the behest of his constituents, not because a lobbyist with a fat campaign check had persuaded him. Proxmire eventually became somewhat of a Senate baron himself, chairing the Banking Committee for six years, where he first opposed then eventually backed a federal bailout for New York City. He surprised us when he announced in the fall of 1988 that he was resigning. He later confided that he wanted to leave at his physical and mental...
...Clock Show.” It was a spoof news program in the same vein as the news correspondents’ reports on “The Daily Show.” Though you may not have heard of the show, its roster was deep with talent: Both Sacha Baron Cohen (aka “Ali G”) and Ricky Gervais (David Brent of TV’s “The Office” and current star of “Extras”) were regular contributors.You also probably haven’t heard of Daisy Donovan, another...
...This was a real tragedy,” she added, “and, given the long history of the family and his involvement at Harvard, his loss will be felt by a lot of people.”Baker was flying alone on his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron BE 55 to meet his wife at their Nantucket home on Thursday when his plane disappeared off the radar and lost contact with the local airport’s radio control tower at 4:45 p.m., dropping below 200 feet about two and a half miles from the airport.The plane, which...