Word: dan
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...think being a black candidate is difficult,” said Dan McKee, the mayor of Cumberland, RI, who is currently studying at the Kennedy School of Government. “But I think that in a lot of ways he’s paying the price that’s necessary for other black candidates to be more successful...
...engineering giant Alstom, into returning a $4.6 million severance payment, and shareholders of Europe's largest drugmaker, London-based GlaxoSmithKline, rejected the $36.5 million payment CEO Jean Pierre Garnier would receive if he lost his job. "Everyone in Europe is being very careful right now," says Dan Konigsburg, a corporate-governance analyst at Standard & Poor's in London. "No one wants to be like Grasso." They will need a big raise for that...
...peak of impeachment. Rep. Bob Livingston, shortly after being elected to succeed the disgraced (and adulterous) Newt Gingrich, had to step down following the revelations of his own extramarital affair. At about the same time, the indiscretions of no fewer than three Republican House impeachment managers, Bob Barr, Dan Burton, and Henry Hyde, came to light in a document compiled by the sleazy, but hardly hypocritical, Larry Flynt...
...International Relations Committee. And Bennett was recently invited by the Republican Club to speak at Harvard. The party never even considered cutting Arnold loose. It all comes back to a kind of bravado built into the collective psyche of the American right wing, something I like to call the Dan Burton Principle. You may know Dan Burton as a senior Republican Congressman from my state, Indiana. In the 1990s he announced on the floor of the House of Representatives his certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into...
...acts that managed to avoid embarrassment was the guitar duo of Michael Ramos ’04-’05 and Dan Tinkoff ’04. Recruited from the Harvard Jazz Band and told to put something together, they decided they needed to go with a standard for the parent crowd. Their hackneyed choice was Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm,” but against all expectations, they did a splendid job with it. They were just two guys onstage making great music and having a great time...