Word: jeane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wake of several failed student-led efforts at large-scale social programming, including last semester’s cancelled Wyclef Jean concert, the College has taken a more active role in event planning...
...November, the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a subsidiary body of the UC, cancelled its planned fall concert featuring hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean because of insufficient ticket sales, costing the UC between $25,000 and $30,000 in sunk costs. And the UC’s Springfest Afterparty last year cost $16,000 but drew fewer than 200 people...
...wake of several failed student-led efforts at large-scale social programming, including last semester’s cancelled Wyclef Jean concert, the College has taken a more active role in event planning...
...Conservatives, for their part, argue that they are more transparent than their recent predecessors, noting that Harper has been holding more press conferences than either Jean Chr?tien or Paul Martin did. Harper "gives deep media interviews with much deeper content than Canadians have seen or heard from previous Prime Ministers over the last 12 years," Buckler says. And government ministers aren't complaining about being muzzled. "We've all been told to be prudent, because when you're in government your words carry different weight than in opposition," says Agricultural Minister Chuck Strahl, a 12-year...
...That's what happened to the Martin government. Gratuitous insults from the Liberal backbench, the unexpected policy change on missile defense, and Martin's "Blame America" tirades during the election left the Bush White House convinced that Canada's jovial, well-meaning leader was as untrustworthy as his predecessor, Jean Chr?tien. Harper, on the other hand, has based his entire approach to Washington on the proposition that that won't happen on his watch. "What's important in dealing with Americans is the absence of surprise," says Derek Burney, former chief of staff to ex-PM Brian Mulroney. "The last...