Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bob Nardelli, chief executive officer of beleaguered Chrysler, which was forced to close all of its manufacturing plants for next month, thanked the White House and Treasury for their "confidence" in Chrysler. "A letter of intent was signed which outlines the specific requirements," he said, adding that "Chrysler is committed to meeting these...
...likes a snitch, but Mark Felt, the former FBI agent who late in life revealed himself as the great mystery man known as Deep Throat, performed an act of high patriotism by helping Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the most serious set of political crimes in American history. His identity also became one of the great journalistic obsessions of the 20th century. Felt died this week at the age of 95 in Santa Rosa, California...
...sources told us to look at Woodward's military service. Examining those records we found that he had been a courier from the Pentagon who regularly took documents to the National Security Council offices in the White House. We also learned from Woodward's first wife that she and Bob were occasionally given seats in the President's box at the Kennedy Center. This pointed us toward Alexander Haig, who before becoming Nixon's last chief of staff was military assistant to Henry Kissinger at the NSC. Haig repeatedly denied being Deep Throat, but we never quite believed him. Realizing...
Tremendous, dedicated, and masterful are all adjectives that can be attributed to Crimson junior guard Jeremy Lin. Anyone who has followed Harvard’s men’s basketball this season—from Crimson reporters to Boston Globe senior writer Bob Ryan—can tell you this.He’s the best player on the court for the Crimson. His start to the season is off the charts.But the question remains whether it’s the best ever. In its storied history, Harvard has had its fair share of great basketball players. But after Lin?...
...with the drug addictions and personality clashes that caused their break-up. One part photo album and one part interview transcript, “The Clash” brings the reader a vibrant and engaging history of one of punk rock’s most influential and inspiring bands. Bob Dylan once said, “Most people who write about music, they have no idea what it feels like to play it.” In telling the band’s story in its members’ own words, “The Clash” has inherent...