Word: freds
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...find some Americans," Braynin worked through Fred Lowell, a San Francisco lawyer with close ties to California's Republican Party. On Feb. 14, Lowell called Joe Shumate, a G.O.P. expert in political data analysis who had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson. Since Wilson's drive for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination had ended almost before it began, Lowell thought Shumate and George Gorton, Wilson's longtime top strategist, might be available to help Yeltsin. They were--and they immediately enlisted Richard Dresner, a New York-based consultant who had worked with them on many...
...small but persistent group of critics, many of them supported by the oil and coal industries, still don't buy it. S. Fred Singer, president of the industry-funded Science and Environment Policy Project, argues that Epstein and his colleagues fail to note the positive health benefits of warmer nights and winters. Others, like John Shlaes, executive director of the Global Climate Coalition, suggest that when the world is faced with the pressing health problems stemming from overcrowded cities and the collapse of sanitation systems, the threat of disease caused by climate change may seem like a minor concern...
Devlin, 33, comes from a movie family (his father is a producer; his actress mother appeared in a '60s Star Trek episode, "Wolf in the Fold," as a princess killed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper); adapting Fred Allen's famous jape about television, he says, "Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood." He knows that movies are to steal from. "More than any other genre," Devlin says, "science fiction cannot deny what comes before it. So, when we did a science-fiction film, especially one like this, where we wanted to have fun, we said...
...rights, Michael Johnson belongs in the other Beverly Hills. At 28 he is the reigning world champion in both the 200 meters and the 400 meters, two races as different as, say, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. One is lightning, the other thunder. Yet Johnson has won 18 straight 200s--make that 19--and 51 consecutive 400s--make that 52--and this July he will attempt to become the first man to win the 200 and the 400 in the same Summer Games. Olympic and international track officials had to rearrange the schedule to accommodate Johnson, but the payoff...
...addition to filling the position vacated by outgoing Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50--who will stay on in a more limited role as a Special Assistant to the President for Development--the Development Office is reorganizing to maximize its resources and meet the demands presented by the second half of the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign, according to a memo from Thomas M. Reardon, Glimp's successor and current director of development...