Word: barone
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That's why it's no small irony that the biggest boon to the venture came from none other than media baron Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel Gore once called a "fifth column" that has turned "daily Republican talking points into the definition of what's objective." Chances are, Current TV would never have got even this far had Murdoch not given it NWI's existing slot on his DirecTV satellite system, which accounts for 14.5 million of the nearly 20 million households Current reaches. It's a big start toward the 50 million Gore hopes to attain...
...Jeannot Szwarc, who doesn't) is in a style that could be called International Mystical. Moore does an excruciatingly ingratiating Shirley Temple impression; as Santa, David Huddleston (Bad Company) says ho ho ho a lot, apparently at knife point; stalwart John Lithgow is amusing as a Nixon-like baron of the toy industry who figures to capitalize on gift giving by establishing a new holiday on March 25: Christmas II. There is little likelihood of a Santa Claus II, forcing the Salkinds to turn to the Easter Bunny or Guy Fawkes...
...hypercharge after perceiving what Fischbach calls "funny results" in two contemporary experiments, one involving gravity tests in a deep mine, the other the behavior of subatomic particles. "We felt the results could be explained with an additional force," says Fischbach, "so we went back to the data published by Baron Roland von Eötvös in Hungary in 1922 to see if we could find evidence." Eötvös had indirectly measured the speeds at which objects fall and found small discrepancies, which he attributed to limitations in his equipment. Re-examining the data, the team decided that the aberrations...
After comedian Sacha Baron Cohen—known by his stage name Ali G.—left some audience members uneasy last year with his off-color jokes on topics such as marijuana and sex, Harvard administrators encouraged this year’s Senior Class Committee to invite a speaker who would appeal to a cross-generational audience, according to committee members...
While some in the audience were laughing when last year’s Class Day speaker Sacha Baron Cohen—known by his stage name Ali G.—joked about marijuana and sex in his speech, Harvard’s administrator listened unamused...