Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast and crew in the engine rooms of these Internet dreadnoughts setting sail for IPO land, the reality is that many of them will never see stock-option millions. Some can't sustain the grueling hours. Still others won't stay at the company for the four years it takes the typical options package to vest--i.e., for the shares to become sellable. "The options are what lead people onward," says Patrick Neeman, director of development at the website Buyingedge.com "But these people waiting for the big IPO are just waiting forever. The only people who get wealthy...
...overseers are elected at large by Harvard alumni. Over 35,000 alums--17.9 percent of degree holders--cast ballots for the candidates, who will serve six-year terms...
Among her colleagues on the board, Kuehl has one of the more colorful histories. After a stint as a cast member on the televisions series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," Kuehl later ran for public office and became the first openly gay or lesbian member to be elected to the California Legislature. She has sponsored bills on topics ranging from domestic violence to scams in the talent agency business...
...ready to peek out, to see beyond yourselves, and cast off the covers," he added...
Having created a character of unadulterated evil, Harris has now proceeded to adulterate him, giving Lecter a traumatic childhood experience to explain the wicked path he later trod. What is more, Lecter is by no means the worst member of the roiling cast of Hannibal; that honor goes to Mason Verger, one of Lecter's two surviving victims, hideously deformed (thanks to Hannibal), heir to his family's meatpacking fortune, a onetime torturer for Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin, and a child molester to boot...