Word: gordons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show host and now billionaire talk- and game-show mogul: Time was, "you hired an M.C. who every mother-in-law would love." But in the reality-TV era, talk and game shows allow, if not require, more edge. We've gone from Bill Cullen's genial cheerleading to Gordon Ramsay's four-letter culinary arias on Hell's Kitchen and Jeff Probst's tribal-council interrogations on Survivor. Once Rosie O'Donnell was a Broadway-belting ball of sunshine; now she's a pugilistic, out-lesbian activist--which probably made her a perfect choice to join the morning free...
...fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape a deprived childhood. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, a former ship's steward, targeted Cameron as part of an "Eton mafia." Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Cameron's likely opponent at the next election, also dismissed him as just "an Old Etonian." Any school for teenagers that politicians can use to curse their foes decades later has powerful magic indeed...
...mess,” the committee member says. “That almost surely had an impact on our ability to deal with the issues at hand. Most people on the committee considered resigning, it was so unpleasant.” And History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says that Summers and Kirby “couldn’t work together effectively” to promote the review. “They couldn’t speak together with one enthusiastic voice about what to put forward,” he says.Some involved with...
...definitely exercised an influence and made a commitment and as we move forward that influence will definitely persist and be felt.”Deputy Provost for Administration Eric Buehrens, who now meets weekly with University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Bok, and Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston development group, says that Summers’ vision will be carried ahead, even as he vacates office.“I think there is broad consensus among the governing members of the University, among the most engaged alums and donors, and among the faculty leadership and deans...about...
...expand after the resignation of Summers, with the potential to become one of the main players in FAS politics far into the future. “Christie had a very tough job in the fall and did a great job,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, one of the Caucus’s two coordinators this semester, along with the environmental science and public policy concentration chair, James J. McCarthy.THE FOUNDATIONWhen the then-acting chair of the folklore and mythology program, Jan Ziolkowski, began to organize informal meetings of department heads...