Word: dixons
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Among them is Jamie S. Gorelick '72, a former deputy attorney general; Deval L. Patrick '78, a prominent civil rights lawyer; John Rockwell '62, the editor of The New York Times' arts and leisure section; C. Dixon Spangler, the former president of the University of North Carolina and Dr. David D. Ho, an AIDS researcher and 1996 Time Magazine Man of the Year...
Hrones complained that a letter by the Harvard Business School Alumni Association urging Business School alums to support C. Dixon Spangler--a Business School graduate--unfairly used Harvard money to support one candidate...
...resistance has focused on video gambling, which experts have called the crack cocaine of wagering because of its quick and deep hold on players. Four years ago, a statewide referendum in South Carolina showed lopsided support for video gambling. But in a survey conducted by the Mason-Dixon polling firm last December, 47% of respondents said video gaming should be done away with and an additional 24% said they favored regulating it more tightly. Contributing to this mood shift is a growing collection of tragedies, such as the death last August of the 10-day-old daughter of Army Sergeant...
...dimensions on 8,000 outdoor displays. Others try niche marketing. In ads on Ally McBeal, Armageddon peddles itself as a love story, with kissy spots featuring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. The idea is to attract Hollywood's hot new demographic, young females--the segment PaineWebber analyst Christopher Dixon calls "the new bobby-soxers...
DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS (July 24). "There will be some weird summer sleeper," says analyst Dixon, "and this could be it." Sleep as in The Big, since this is a black comedy about college kids plotting to drive a roommate to suicide so they'll get an A for grief. With perennial star-of-the-future Tom Everett Scott. Directed by Alan Cohn, who helped create MTV's The Real World, so we'll hope against hope...