Word: lew
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...Louisiana and South Carolina rapidly disqualified Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the electoral college majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates was General Lew Wallace, the author...
Anna Fudacz, whose Harvard interview four years ago was "spoiled" by a curmudgeonly alum, earned departmental honors in economics at Stanford, reveled in Silicon Valley and plans to work at Intel next year. Mira Lew, who had hired a professional college counselor to help her win the admissions game, became a history major at Columbia--and has since landed a job at Marvel Comics. Parham Yashar also moved on quickly from his Harvard rejection. He will be graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA a week from Saturday, then off to Northwestern Medical School...
...campaign's Florida finance chair, Richard Swann, asked Washington for help on a fund raiser, he got a 22-year-old kid named McAuliffe. Breaking a record for the event, McAuliffe was sent to California, where he worked closely with a pair of fund-raising legends: Hollywood's Lew Wasserman and San Francisco real estate magnate Walter Shorenstein. By the general election, McAuliffe was the top fund-raising member of the staff at the D.N.C., wearing fake horn-rimmed glasses to look older. Something else came out of McAuliffe's Florida initiation: a marriage to Swann's daughter Dorothy, with...
...corporate America, discussing the mobility of dairy products sure sounds a lot less threatening than terms such as restructuring, re-engineering and outsourcing. Durk Jager, chief executive of Procter & Gamble, a company in the midst of a huge overhaul, posted a notice on the employee website recommending it. Lew Platt, former head of Hewlett-Packard, endorsed it in a speech. Larry Johnson, CEO of the Bank of Hawaii, handed out 4,000 copies to staff members and asked them to discuss the story with their managers. Says he: "Our objective was to try and condition employees as much as possible...