Word: gordon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That ambivalence will be reflected on May 1, the tricentenary of the Act of Union, which united the Parliaments of Scotland and England. The anniversary will pass barely marked in either country. And tensions between the two may even increase if Gordon Brown, a Scot, becomes the U.K.'s Prime Minister as expected in June. It will highlight an anomaly that's existed since 1999, when Scotland created its own Parliament to address local issues: Scottish M.P.s still vote on English matters in Westminster, but English M.P.s have no say in Edinburgh. "I'd be upset by that too," says...
...Brown duo picking on her, Brook stepped her game and for the second match in a row, Mukundan and Brook won, 9-7.Mukundan carried her strong doubles play into the singles, beating Ames, 6-0, 6-0.“Preethi just mowed her opponent down,” coach Gordon Graham said. “She played dominating tennis like she can do at times, and the girl didn’t have a chance. Preethi actually felt really bad because it was the girl’s last college match, and Preethi just wiped her off the court...
...Osmond was close to Aldous Huxley, the novelist and fellow psychedelic enthusiast, and in the mid-'50s the two men met with a vice president from J.P. Morgan & Co., Gordon Wasson, who - in the racial and stilted language of the day - called himself and a photographer friend "the first white men in recorded history to eat the divine mushrooms." He meant psychedelic mushrooms, which Wasson had found in an Indian village in Mexico...
...really don’t think that we’ve thrown that out,” Chief Operating Officer of the Allston Development Group Christopher M. Gordon said in an interview last month. “It was a framework but not a plan. I think it is still guiding our work...
...third doubles match, the match originally looked to be up for grabs with the score tied 3-3 and the Harvard duo playing well. “There was a moment there where I looked at the Penn coach, and he just rolled his eyes,” coach Gordon Graham said. “In some of the Penn matches in the past, Penn has been the favorite on paper, and we’ve come charging back to beat them,” he added. “This time they were just too good...