Word: byronism
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...Forming a slightly irregular love-triangle with Knapp is comfortably English agent Mr. Blair (George Byron) and the rambling, bumbling Soviet physicist-turned English spy, Dr. Kerner (James A. Carmicheal '00). It is a compliment to these actors that they are able to engage the audience in the drama's preoccupation with notions of Britishness...
...Russian with ease; philosophical, profound and a fountain of abstract truth in a world of nicely clipped English chatter. For all this, though, he ends up being as inhibited as the notoriously uptight English; presenting the condition as something human rather than something cultural. When Carmicheal is joined with Byron's solidly played straight-man, and Knapp's desperately bright Mrs. Hapgood, they really hit on dramatic agony; the big gulf between feeling, and action...
...means spoiled, adulterated, impotent or subpotent medicines making their way into American medicine cabinets." But critics believe they're simply covering up for price-gouging, and have adapted the amendment to allow for greater FDA screening. And in a sharp back-at-ya, Senators James Jeffords (R-Vt.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) have added language to the amendment that would allow American pharmacists and wholesalers to import medicines previously exported by U.S. drug companies - in other words, to permit American consumers to buy the drugs at the lower prices the U.S. corporations often charge in foreign markets...
...reason I didn't go into politics right away was because I didn't like some of the things that were happening in politics," says Byron J. McLain '00, outgoing chair of the IOP's Student Advisory Committee. Next year, McLain will be working as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Atlanta...
...honored that I was invited, but it is sad too, because I can see that this was an opportunity for the women of the class to bond and see each other off," Byron J. McLain '00 said...