Word: channeler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband Gustave, a cable television pioneer who helped develop the Nickelodeon channel aand pay-per-view technology, gave 14.5 million to the Harvard Law School, where they met, $10 million to establish the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and $5 million to the women's matching fund...
...Jesse Ventura came to campus this week. According to most major newspapers and the cable channel CNBC, this was a very big deal. Ventura has been the target of much criticism lately for comments he made in an interview with Playboy. I picked up a copy of the magazine in order to judge his remarks for myself. It turns out that a female boxer is photographed naked in the same issue. I didn't even know there were female boxers...
...General Dwight Eisenhower was prepared to invade Normandy on June 5, but when his weather officer predicted storms over the English Channel, Ike postponed D-day for 24 hours...
What if the Channel weather had not abated on June 6? World War II chronicler and Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose argues that without air cover and paratrooper support, the first waves of Allied troops would have been incapable of fighting. Eisenhower could not have withdrawn them. Hitler could have held his positions, and Operation Overlord, the master plan for reconquering Europe, would have disintegrated. Ike would have lost his job, the Churchill government could have fallen, and President Franklin Roosevelt might have failed in his bid for a fourth term...
Even so, Hitler could not have triumphed, says Ambrose. With Britain and the U.S. in disarray, the Soviets might have overrun Germany, Italy and France. The European continent would have fallen to the communists, and the Red Army would have been poised at the English Channel. By this time, the Allies' only recourse would have been the atom bomb...