Word: enthusiast
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Rutan--who took to calling NASA "the other space agency" during the X Prize competition--firmly believes the future belongs to commercial space flight. Concerned that SpaceShipOne was destined for nothing more than the National Air and Space Museum, he and Allen enlisted another aeronautics enthusiast and billionaire, Virgin's Richard Branson. Over dinner in Mojave, they sketched out a vision of suborbital and orbital space tourism over the next 75 years. Branson was instantly won over. He ordered five larger versions of SpaceShipOne with seats for five passengers and a pilot...
Writer and political enthusiast Stephen Elliott will speak on his new book Looking Forward to It; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the American Electoral Process. His book recounts his journey through the election process, during which he encounters a menagerie of characters including washed-up campaign managers, corrupt reporters and politicians. A reception at Noir at the Charles Hotel will follow the event. Free. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store. 1256 Massachusetts Avenue...
...Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya. "It's been going on for 10 years and the death of Kadyrov won't change a thing." Perhaps not, if Kadyrov's 27-year-old son, Ramzan, takes over where his father left off. Ramzan, a boxing enthusiast, is head of the kadyrovtsi, which stands accused of a series of human-rights violations against civilians and political opponents. "The [kadyrovtsi] is notorious for kidnappings, brutality and tortures, and is universally hated by the population," a top Russian law-enforcement official told Time before Kadyrov's assassination. Chechens loyal...
...Twice now, Dan and I have dressed up as jackalopes and gone to FOP-leader dinners in Quincy,” Kathleen E. McKee ’06, a FOP leader and the FATAWE enthusiast behind the jackalope’s inclusion as the official mascot, wrote in an e-mail. “We wore home-made paper bag masks on our heads that looked like our mascot bunny with horns. Needless to say, mostly people just looked as us very weirdly...
...former Trinity President Evan Dobelle changed all that. Dobelle, a squash enthusiast, hired current coach Paul Assaiante and ordered him to field a team competitive with those of Ivy League schools...