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...Skip Gates went and informed Martha Nadell, my friend, that he was going to show up and cancel classes the first day. When he showed up the next day, Cornel West suddenly walked in because he had borrowed a friend’s car and drove from Manhattan in the morning so he could be at his class. There are very few people who teach at this university, there are very few people who attend this university who have that level of commitment to what they do and have that sort of moral imperative to be where they?...
...December he won a giant-slalom event in Val d'Isere, France, and then drove seven hours to Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, the next day and won a slalom event. No other American had won two events in a row since Phil Mahre in 1983. Then, in early January in Adelboden, Switzerland, Miller won a race by nearly 2 sec. It's an astonishing margin, like winning by 20 m in a 100-m dash. He has been on the winners' podium eight times this season, compared with three last season...
...rose quickly through EWC’s ranks and was known by many for his caring—after a death in the family of one of the skaters in the show, Lee drove the skater back to her native Montreal...
...company's fat days, Fastow earned a reputation as a money wizard who constructed the complex financial vehicles that Enron drove on the road to explosive growth. Skilling wanted an "asset-light" company that could rapidly exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, broadband capacity and anything else that could be traded. So beginning in 1993, Fastow created hundreds of "special-purpose entities" designed to transfer Enron's debt to an outside company and get it off the books--without giving up control of the assets that stood behind the debt...
...York City resident Greg T. Curran, who was born in Massachusetts, drove the 200 miles to Boston just to cheer on the team he grew up with...