Word: grosse
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...higher taxes. An attempt to smarten up her image - party spin doctors ensured sweat stains under her arms were digitally removed from photographs taken at the Bayreuth Festival - backfired when the unretouched photo was widely published. And then, in a live television interview in July, Merkel confused net and gross wages when calculating how her plans to cut nonwage costs would affect the cost of labor in Germany. Her Bavarian ally Edmund Stoiber, who lost to Schröder in the 2002 election, is not helping matters. He lashed out at eastern German voters, who could tip the election. Stoiber...
Nelson’s appointment, originally reported by the Cornell Daily Sun, comes as part of the ongoing restructuring of the College. While some University Hall administrators have departed and some have been shuffled into new positions, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 announced this past year a number of appointments and posts intended to help manage undergraduate life...
...This is really a new position, unifying the Houses and the Yard,” Gross said in January, of the dean of residential life, noting then that he wanted the training and organization of freshman proctors and residential tutors in Houses to come from the same place...
...wasn't an insult exactly. Barbershop didn't pretend to be more than a funny movie about barbers. Moviegoers--black plus a substantial white crossover--didn't much mind, giving the Ice Cube hit a $75 million gross and inspiring a sequel--two, if you count Beauty Shop. But it was hardly ambitious, so it was surprising that Showtime would ask screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings) to adapt it for TV. "My first reaction was, 'Oh, that's what I want to do,'" Ridley says sarcastically. "Remaking somebody else's movie--that's what I want to be remembered...
...have a strong arts heritage here at Harvard,” Gross said in a statement. “The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is in the forefront of that heritage, having been a fixture here since the late 1700s. We are very happy that we will be able to give them, and several other student performance groups at Harvard, a wonderful new home so that old traditions may continue, and new ones may begin...