Word: eliot
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...judge from his journal and a reissue of his collected verse, Stephen Spender, 76, remains a minor poet and a major luncher: "I had lunch with Eliot a few days ago at the club ... On Thursday went to the luncheon given in honour of John Lehmann at the Trocadero ... Lunch in Paris with Denis de Rougemont ... We gave a luncheon for Auden and the Austrian Ambassador ... In Berlin, at luncheon, I met George Kennan again ... Went to lunch with Robert Oppenheimer ... [Guy Burgess] invited me to lunch at his apartment ... Lunched with Cyril (Connolly) at Whites ... Pauline de Rothschild rang...
...books for months. Greenberg's own board--led by longtime peer and pal Frank Zarb, who for years was his quietly designated successor should the worst happen--lost faith and pushed him to resign, first as CEO and then as chairman, in March. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed civil fraud charges in May, accusing Greenberg of orchestrating "sham transactions" that hid losses and inflated AIG's net worth. Just last week he resigned from AIG's board, ending his last official tie to the company--the same week two executives at General Re, a unit of Warren...
...from both parties question whether the NRC has done enough. Eight state attorneys general recently petitioned the NRC to require more security. The standard for protecting nuclear plants "remains essentially what it was in the 1970s," said one of their filings, sent to the NRC by New York's Eliot Spitzer. The NRC needs to bolster security at power plants "to reflect the realities of 2005, beginning with an immediate recognition of what we all learned on September...
...Here the freshmen are totally disconnected from the houses,” says Eliot House resident tutor Alexander G. Liebman, who spent his undergraduate years at Yale...
Last semester, two Eliot House juniors, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 and Benjamin B. Collins ’06, began an online petition for divestment which collected thousands of signatures from students and Faculty. Their efforts stimulated much-needed awareness of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, where state-sponsored murders are responsible for an estimated 400,000 deaths. A couple of months later, two Harvard seniors launched a controversial campaign, Senior Gift Plus (SGP), and the divestment debate was in full swing...