Word: marc
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While aspirations for study run high, for many the pursuit will require a lot more. work Quincy House resident Marc P. Diaz '99 said he would like to study private sector patronage of art museums in both the United States and the United Kingdom...
There is luck and there is fate. Marc Rosset of Switzerland was eliminated from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first round. Ranked 47th in the world, Rosset, 27, decided to stay on in New York for practice with the best players in the world. He and his coach canceled their plan to fly to Geneva--on Swissair 111. That was luck...
Slams started in Chicago in the mid-1980s when Marc Smith, a former construction worker and a published poet, created them to revitalize poetry readings and reach new audiences. I first heard about them in 1991, when I reported on the growing phenomenon for TIME. Like many poets, I was suspicious of the concept. How could you judge poetry? Why would you want to? But when L.A.'s first team went to Portland, Ore., in 1996, I tagged along with some friends. While not everything I heard fit my definition of poetry, it was a Woodstock of words, images...
...Marc Klaas of Sausalito, Calif., who became an activist against child molesters after his daughter Polly was kidnapped and killed, spoke at the Berkeley protest. "Fate gave David Cash the opportunity to be heroic, and he turned his back on that opportunity," Klaas declared. "He was in the singular position of being able to save a seven-year-old child, and he chose to do nothing. For that, he will have to answer to his own withered soul forever...
...There's just one problem. Netscape's founding fathers, Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen, maintain that they began planning the new company on March 1 1994. What's more, the browser Andreesen first worked on -- NCSA Mosaic -- was already wowing the crowds back in December 1993, when the New York Times' John Markoff lauded it as the killer application for the Internet. Gates might want to brush up on browser history before his impending DOJ deposition...