Word: foils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that hardly ends the story. Diller seemed prepared to foil Comcast last week by actively seeking higher offers for QVC from telephone companies and other cable concerns. And even if no one else comes along, Diller can console himself with the $100 million or so that he stands to make by selling his QVC holdings to Comcast. But that is not likely to calm a restless Diller. "Barry's not a pig," says his close friend Diane Von Furstenberg. "The money is a consequence, but not his first goal. Barry has always fulfilled his dreams...
...midst of a televised cross-country tour, the duo are clear successors to veteran Letterman foil Larry ("Bud") Melman -- with one important difference. Melman was a character played by actor Calvert DeForest. Mujibur Rahman, 34, and Sirajul Islam, 39 ("the boys," as Letterman calls them), are real New Yorkers -- and a real problem for their fellow emigres, who have no illusions about what America is laughing...
This spring, though, junior Kwame van Leeuwen proved that there is more than a little nobility left in the sport. In an astounding feat of personal athleticism, van Leeuwen took first place in the grueling NCAA championship foil competition in March, becoming the third and final Harvard student this year--along with squash players Ezra and Fraiberg--to bring home an individual national championship...
...Leeuwen won the NCAA fencing championship in the foil in March, sinking 16 opponents in a row to cruise to an undefeated tournament victory. The championship marked the realization of the three-year quest for the fencing captain, who finished third and second, respectively, in the tourney the two previous years...
...could be logical to settle for a breastplate of tin foil over an empty heart. One could argue that we are here for one purpose only: to work--and more precisely, to prove to the world that I, former king of Podunk high, am the next Albert Einstein, Thomas Aquinas and Arturo Toscanini all wrapped...