Word: mack
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Professor John E. Mack, a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and a popular writer and commentator on extraterrestrial activity, has disputed the notion that alien abduction claims are fabricated. His spokesperson cites the study as evidence...
McNally said he and Mack agree that the subjects had intense emotional experiences, and were not mentally ill; but he added he was “very skeptical” of the abduction narratives themselves...
Instead, the typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual...
...whose company just announced a record €1.4 billion third-quarter net loss, John Mack, incoming co-CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, sounds mighty confident. Despite the red ink, the affable American, whose manner belies his nickname of "Mack the Knife," is buoyant. "I'm an optimist," he told Time. Given Credit Suisse's recent track record, Mack could be accused of wishful thinking. Consider how the 146-year-old bank - Switzerland's second-largest, with operations globally - has seen its key divisions gouged by hostile market conditions. In the third quarter Winterthur, Credit Suisse's insurance arm, punched...
...Fernando E. Daniels ’03, attempting to bring the mack to the comely Louisa K. Mackintosh ’04, ran around the bases in Cambridge Common, thereby working his awkward, girl-ignorant game in a surprisingly literal fashion. She took the opportunity to run a race of her own: the 40-meter dash into Radcliffe Yard, where she lost Daniels by crouching behind a bush. Commented Daniels, “I just don’t get that girl. I ran around the bases, for chrissakes.” Final thought: Daniels may have reached home base...