Word: lisa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Humor helped defuse an uncomfortable situation for Summers in March at the physics department library, where he took questions from an audience largely unhappy with his record on women in science. Lisa Randall ’83, a professor of physics and harsh critic of Summers, was enlisted to introduce the president but could barely muster a kind word. “We’re perplexed how you could draw those conclusions,” Randall said of Summers’ NBER remarks, “given the lack of evidence.” Then she rolled her eyes...
Fisher lives in Seattle with his wife, Lisa Douglass, and their two-year-old daughter...
...modest Lisa Hsia ’80 tells the story, it has all been a happy accident— her career path to success, that...
...Lisa Price needs a bigger kitchen. That's where Brooklyn's beauty secret for the past 12 years, Carol's Daughter, brews 350 types of skin- and hair-care products with homemade appeal and tropical scents. Founder Price, 34, joined forces eight months ago with ex--record executive Steve Stoute, and the hip-hop and business matchmaker recruited seven investors--including rapper Jay-Z, former Sony mogul Tommy Mottola and Will Smith--to put the bling--$10 million--into the brand. So far, it seems, the money has been well spent. "There's some fairy-tale dust going on," says...
Perhaps it's because successwas once so elusive that Lisa Scottoline wears it so conspicuously. There are the leopard-print Manolo Blahnik mules, the Blue Cult jeans and Ralph Lauren sweater, the gold Cartier bracelet and the white S500 Mercedes. Her home--a stylishly refurbished Pennsylvania farmhouse on 43 acres--is a grand monument to a blockbuster career that the author has painstakingly built from the ground up. Sometimes called the female John Grisham, Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) is a star among the burgeoning ranks of lawyers turned best-selling novelists. Devil's Corner (HarperCollins; 393 pages...