Word: kerrs
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...physical calamity with every 50-50 ball. Despite missing a penalty kick in the first half, Harvard willed its way into overtime with sophomore Kwaku Nyamekye’s equalizer in the 83rd minute.“[Kwaku] reads the game very well,” head coach John Kerr said. “He comes up with some unbelievable plays, and everyone in the crowd, all the coaching staff just go, ‘Wow!’”Scrappy play continued in overtime. Brown kept its reserve. Harvard did not. A weighted ball wafted through...
...from South Africa to Canada, cities and countries that were never associated with the "classical" mafia in the postwar period have been swamped by syndicates shifting huge quantities of illicit goods and services around the world. "We have an exponential growth in serious and organized crime," said Commander Sharon Kerr, head of the specialist crime directorate of Britain's Metropolitan Police, at a conference in Liverpool earlier this year, "manifesting itself in all kinds of ways; from Chinese DVD sellers - which can involve murders, trafficking and kidnap - to Romanian gangs of bag snatchers using young children trafficked into the United...
...Kerr's examples of organized criminal activity in Britain represent the final retail link in a vast chain of production, distribution and sale of criminal goods that is every bit as entrepreneurial and growth-oriented as the most dynamic global corporations. There are now few major crimes which do not involve syndicates in several countries, usually in more than one continent. Israeli crime groups, for example, have for some time controlled the export of ecstasy tablets into the U.S. In a perfect example of globalization, a gang headquartered in Tel Aviv was able to mastermind the export of drugs manufactured...
...Paul Scofield, who died last month.) Having cut his great white teeth on Broadway, Heston was the rare mid-century movie star who returned to the stage. Laurence Olivier directed him in The Tumbler, the year after Ben-Hur. He did Long Day's Journey Into Night with Deborah Kerr and Macbeth with Vanessa Redgrave.In 1999 he and his wife, Lydia Clarke, read the Love Letters play in London...
...list of Oscar's missteps, I would add Gentlemen's Agreement over Great Expectations in 1947, Charlton Heston (Ben Hur) over James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder) in 1959 and Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8) over Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners) in 1960. At or near the top of the list of missing nominations, I would place both Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) in 1940. Paul J. Corigliano, San Marcos, Calif...