Word: jeffreys
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Barcus, a longtime house resident, said she would start a pilot program for tutoring incoming sophomores. The program was designed by Jeffrey Wolcowitz, assistant dean of the faculty for undergraduate education...
...most foreign firms are so interested in a Hollywood presence is that they want popular American programming for their booming TV stations, cable companies, movie theaters and videocassette ventures. "American entertainment is still viewed as the pre-eminent source of programming in terms of production values and creativity," says Jeffrey Logsdon, director of institutional research for the investment firm Crowell, Weedon & Co. The U.S. posted net exports last year of $2.5 billion in movies, home videos and pay-per-view cable TV, an increase of 32% from the year before...
...consternation of many journalists, however, the meaning of those quotation marks has been blurred by a three-judge panel of the U.S. appeals court in California. In a 2-to-1 vote, the judges this month dismissed a libel suit by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, holding that a writer may misquote a subject -- even deliberately -- as long as the sense is not substantially changed. Malcolm's articles attributed to Masson some dozen phrases he contends were altered or fabricated. Most offensive to him was a supposed self-characterization as an "intellectual gigolo...
...knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse." Although she focused on a ruptured relationship between author Joe McGinniss (Fatal Vision) and his subject, murderer Jeffrey MacDonald, many readers assumed that Malcolm was writing confessionally, if unknowingly, about herself...
Although Boston's unseasonably mild winter caused many this year to worry that the summer would break all records for the area's hottest, meteorologist Jeffrey S. Waldstreicher of the National Weather Service said there is little cause to worry...