Word: cantor
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...G.O.P. Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia said the reversal proved "that the American people have a strong voice in deciding what is fair and appropriate." One problem: the American people - already equipped to exercise that voice with their remotes - hadn't seen The Reagans. Nor had its critics or defenders, since the controversial work - still being edited when it was yanked - did not yet exist. A few partisans saw leaked scripts; most based their attacks on quotes in the press...
...Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial-services firm that occupied the top floors of a World Trade Center tower, has more real-world experience with computers and terrorism than any other company. It lost more than 700 of its 1,000 New York City employees on Sept. 11. Despite obstacles that were unforeseeable in any emergency contingency plan and that challenged the limits of emotional endurance, survivors managed to reopen with the bond markets 47 hours later...
...cantor from Temple Beth Zion Congregation began by singing a Hebrew prayer, and Reverend Leslie Sterling read a passage from the Book of Isaiah that called for maintaining justice...
Though several of the performed works could have fit nicely into a Broadway show, the audience was treated to a diverse range of style. An ode to the guitar by Matt V. Cantor ’06 bordered on folksy, while Kamala S. Salmon ’03 performed her breathlessly soulful song “Fly.” Ally C. Smith ’06 performed Mitnick’s lullabye from a mother to a newborn daughter, a wish that her daughter believe in angels made even sweeter by Smith’s angelic voice and heartful...
...National Organization for Women. Carrie Fisher tells about the day when Star Wars premiered and her identity as Princess Leia Organa became larger than life. Senate majority leader Bill Frist recounts how the news of the world's first heart transplant inspired him to become a cardiac surgeon, and Cantor Fitzgerald chief Howard Lutnick gives an eyewitness account of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center that foreshadowed 9/11...