Word: chris
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...more important consequence of the decision has been a remarkably vibrant discussion of how best to get money out of politics. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has called for a constitutional amendment reversing the decision combined with public financing of elections. Congressman Chris Van Hollen and Senator Chuck Schumer have proposed requiring corporations to subject all political spending to a shareholder vote, which would presumably cause such spending to grind to a halt. Yale professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres suggest denying federal contracts to corporations that engage in political spending, and Ackerman and Congressman David Wu have formulated...
...Friday’s women’s basketball game, Yale coach Chris Gobrecht’s face was as red as the ‘H’ on the center of the court. The Crimson (13-7, 4-2 Ivy), employing a lethal zone defense, stifled her Bulldogs’ offensive attack all night while creating plenty of offensive opportunities in the paint 94 feet away in a 88-65 win Friday at Lavietes Pavilion...
That hasn't deterred Chris Johnston, 36, the proprietor of punk label Plan-it-X Records. A genial Indiana native with a blond widow's peak and a penchant for flannel shirts, Johnston was looking for a decrepit Midwestern river town to relocate his business to when he saw Cairo on the map. "I grew up by the Ohio River," he says. "The more I read about the town's history, the more intrigued I got." Like the urban homesteaders who have set up shop in recent years in economically depressed areas of Detroit and Pittsburgh, Pa., Johnston came...
Just spend a few minutes around Marty Lawthers, the mother of chipper U.S. Olympic luger Chris Mazder, and you'll discover the roots of Mazder's disposition. During Sunday afternoon's men's luge final at the Whistler Sliding Center, Lawthers enthusiastically shows off both her cowbells - one has a pink ribbon that Mazder's girlfriend gave him - and the "Go Chris!" face paint on her cheeks. But mention Friday's tragic luge accident, which claimed the life of Nodar Kumaritashvili, who hailed the former Soviet republic of Georgia, and Lawthers' sunny mood soon turns dark. "A death happened just...
...films based on C.S. Lewis's Narnia novels became so expensive that Disney ditched the idea of making a third. (It has been picked up elsewhere.) Hard to say whether Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, will flourish on screen, but it has a hopeful start, for which director Chris Columbus deserves some credit. On his own, Columbus is no hit machine: his last two features, Rent and I Love You, Beth Cooper, earned only $29 million and $15 million, respectively. But as the launch deliverer for kids'-movie series, the guy is peerless. He directed the first two Home...