Word: elie
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...four men running for president and vice president in the 2000 election, three of them went to Yale. Both Republican candidates, Texas Gov. George W. Bush and former Wyoming representative Richard B. Cheney, as well as Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, are sons of Eli. Only one candidate, Al Gore '69, went to Harvard College...
...Republicans lost. Lost on the party circuit, that is. It's a wonder, in fact, that anybody got any work done in Los Angeles this week during the Democratic convention. Eli Broad, who forked over $1 million personally to get the Democrats to town, said he had been invited to 340 parties - and counting. Variety, the chronicler of Hollywood's party-hearty ways, says there were over 40 events on Sunday alone. Chelsea Clinton, the Gore girls, the Kennedy men were everywhere, grabbing the spotlight next to mega-party throwers like Barbra Streisand and the ever-ubiquitous Melissa Etheridge...
...Spike Lee's misinformed comments about the movie The Patriot, which is set during the American Revolution [PEOPLE, July 17]. Lee said, "I kept wondering, Where are all the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" As any schoolboy knows, cotton did not become king in the South until after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, in early 1793, several years after the events portrayed in the movie. STANLEY W. KANDEBO Newtown...
...Eli in the Yard...
...years drug companies have been searching in vain for an effective antisepsis potion. Then late last month Eli Lilly & Co. sounded an optimistic note. Clinical trials of a new Lilly drug called Zovant were abruptly halted when it became clear that the death rate of desperately sick patients infused with Zovant was significantly lower than that of counterparts receiving a placebo. When news of this development reached Wall Street, Lilly's stock jumped more than 14 points, to 102, in one day. "We'll know when we get all the data what the drug is truly capable of doing," says...