Word: cleverisms
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...will not wed the daughter of Lord Sothersby,” he announced. “Though my family doth wish it, she hath not my heart.” Word on the street is that he pines for Mary Kelly ’04, who is exceeding clever, but unfortunately Irish. “She is more fit to be a chambermaid than a bride,” sniffed Spencer’s father, Lord Nigel Spencer...
...known for a long time that Rachel would lead FM. She has always been a clever and talented writer. One of her stories, on irony, was assigned reading for a Harvard class (Leo Damrosch’s “Wit and Humor”). Over the year she has grown into being a patient but merciless editor, allergic to bullshit, her Vermont upbringing clearly supplying her with the ideal editor’s mix of outward bucolity covering a willingness to use firearms. And only recently have we discovered her fine public speaking skills. Rachel is great. I hope...
Colleagues who have traveled with Adebayo Ogunlesi during his years as a globe-trotting dealmaker have seen him face down bribe-seeking gunmen in his native Nigeria and effect a clever predawn escape from student rioters in Indonesia. But today Ogunlesi confronts a crisis that in many ways is scarier: he's the new head of worldwide investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), which lost nearly $1 billion last year and faces accusations that its advice to investors was corrupted by its desire to please big corporate clients...
...high number of penalties was made more unbearable by the choice of accompanying music—the theme from Law and Order on Friday night and the Diana King classic “Bad Boys” on Saturday. Though clever and amusing the first time, the ditties became irritating when the penalty numbers hit double digits...
Imam Samudra was supposed to be the clever one. A tech-freak renowned for carrying his laptop computer with him wherever he went, he was careful to limit his mobile phone conversations to 20-second chats to foil police scanning technology. The other Bali plotters looked up to him and, police say, heeded his orders. But in the end, Samudra, who Indonesian police report has confessed to being the chief planner and coordinator of the bomb blasts in Bali on Oct. 12 that killed 191 people, wasn't quite clever enough; the 35-year-old Indonesian hadn't been keeping...