Word: belle
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...seven-and-a-half hours of recordings and nearly 300 pages of transcript, were the first to be distributed to the general public. They contained discussions that Kennedy had in late 1962 with Cox about the integration at the University of Mississippi and with former economics professor David E. Bell, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget, about developing American economic policy...
...years, black students at HLS had celebrated small victories: in 1971, the first black law professor, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., earned a tenured position on the faculty, and a second black professor won tenure later that decade...
...swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Dreyfus - and also Jerry Lewis. Not surprisingly, some observers suggest that the contrast in achievements of its various honorees has cheapened the medal to the point of self-parody...
...energy drinks (and caffeine pills, if you need an extra kick). But it’s hard to know which of the many options will really get you going, and which will lead to a break down à la Jessie’s infamous Saved By the Bell incident. So here’s FM’s guide to the good stuff. First off, if you’re looking at an energy drink and it doesn’t have caffeine, put it back. You’re better off drinking water—it doesn?...
Where similar cases, from Rodney King in Los Angeles to Sean Bell in New York, have provoked protests and even violence, the reaction in Philadelphia has been muted ever since a news helicopter caught more than a dozen white officers kicking and beating three black men who were arrested as suspects in a shooting on a city street. "This was just a very unusual situation and I think the public reacted to it as an unusual situation," says Mayor Michael Nutter, who was swift to denounce the beatings after the tape showed on local television. "It doesn't represent anywhere...