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...landscaper made him a hit with the wealthy Hamptonites. One family liked him so much that they had their personal attorney help him apply for legal residency. But even after he was legal, he still found it tricky being gardener to the rich and famous. He is fond of recalling how he walked out on the actress Lauren Bacall after, he says, she yelled at him for cutting a clutch of lilies too short. Overall, however, his perseverance has been richly rewarded. Coria started out making just $3.25 an hour, but today he is a U.S. citizen and owns...
...When I was in government, I was fond of warning that…the world economy could not fly forever on a single American engine. Frankly, it has flown further and longer than I would have anticipated,” said Summers, who is one of four co-chairs of the group’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland...
Garza, the bolo-wearing former chairman of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, has fond memories of his session with Bush, which he said was held in 2001 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House. According to e-mails in the hands of investigators, the meeting was arranged with the help of Abramoff and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. In an April 18, 2001, e-mail to Abramoff, Norquist wrote that he would be "honored" if Abramoff "could come to the White House meeting...
...reasons why we should be wary of accepting too much of our news, if not for campus affairs then at least for global ones, from these unorthodox sources. It’s worth starting with a particular institution which certain elements of the blog community are rightly fond of, something called Technorati.Technorati is like a “who’s who” in the blogging world—a computer-controlled popularity contest designed to figure out what the most talked about issues are and who is saying the most interesting things about them. It works principally...
...Shakespeare’s sonnets. Evans was also generous in sharing his office space with former students and younger scholars, said Professor of English John Tobin of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Tobin, who worked with Evans on the second edition of The Riverside Shakespeare, said he has fond memories of mornings spent with Evans in his Widener office. “He was extremely generous with his advice and his support,” Tobin said. “His letters of recommendation were works of art.” Tobin said that Evans was drawn to Shakespeare because...