Word: kentuckian
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Pacelli, who is also a Crimson editor, has always considered himself a Kentuckian by blood, although he hails from Illinois: his favorite pastimes are horse racing, gambling, bluegrass music and bourbon. When he learned his uncle was a friend of the Kentucky governor, he couldn’t resist making a small request. Soon enough, he was officially nominated and given a lifetime commission, which comes with a certificate bearing the governor’s seal, an entitlement to official deference in the state of Kentucky and a brass membership card...
...history is any guide, the news will probably be yet another multimillion-dollar acquisition that will throw the spotlight once again on the 45-year-old Kentuckian and the company he named after his grandma's tobacco farm. Ripplewood Holdings might be little known in the U.S., but the private-equity firm, based in New York City, is virtually a household name in Japan, thanks to a $2.5 billion shopping spree in which it has grabbed national jewels, including a bank, a golf resort and a record label. The current deal may or may not involve KDDI, the Japanese phone...
...history is any guide, the news will probably be yet another multimillion-dollar acquisition that will throw the spotlight once again on the 45-year-old Kentuckian and the company he named after his grandma's tobacco farm. Ripplewood Holdings may be little known in the U.S., but the private-equity firm, based in New York City, is virtually a household name in Japan, thanks to a $2.5 billion shopping spree in which it has grabbed national jewels, including a bank, a golf resort and a record label. The current deal may or may not involve KDDI, the Japanese phone...
...story on the discovery of a new apelike human ancestor that walked upright induced monkeyshines in many of you. "Some of my forebears may have hung by their necks," chuckled a Los Angeles reader, "but none ever hung by their tails." A Kentuckian averred that "the evolutionary process has evidently gone into reverse. The scientists have devolved into baboons." And a South Carolina man hoped that "since TIME has firmly established our lineage, we may begin paying for our subscriptions in bananas...
...McConnell?s promised filibuster, of course, that is the probably insurmountable hurdle that McCain-Feingold faces. The Kentuckian makes no bones about how he feels about a soft-money ban, calling it "one of the tragedies of our time" that such a bill "is allowed to be advanced as reform." McConnell equates unlimited campaign money with free speech, and his solution to the ongoing sale of U.S. politicians is to raise prices, not lower them. With McConnell waiting to pounce with his own version of the Mr. Smith myth, McCain and Feingold need 60 votes to pass their bill...