Word: marla
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...says Barry Vigon, camp director for Pali Overnight Adventures, which, in addition to Hollywood Stunt Camp, operates Secret Agent Camp, Acting Academy, Spa Camp and Rock Star Camp (price: $1,435 for a one-week session). "We've come to realize that camp is much more than recreation," says Marla Coleman, past president of the American Camp Association (ACA). "It's a total education experience...
...didn't know what to make of Marla Ruzicka. Young, blonde, relentlessly buoyant and sometimes giggly, she stood out among the tired, cynical hacks and aid workers that usually populate war zones, so much so that battle-weary journalists nicknamed her "Bubbles" in the early days, uncertain what to make of this gregarious life force that had dropped in our midst. In Kabul and Baghdad during the past few years, Marla was the life of the party. She would rent a house for a day, arrange food and drink and then fire off e-mails to friends and colleagues inviting...
...Friday night prelude to Saturday’s main event included a dinner and discussion panel featuring Vanessa E. Jones, a columnist for the Boston Globe, Marla Fredericks, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard, and Kim Williams, an assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
That spring, Marla D. Eby ‘73, then the chairman of the Radcliffe Freshman Council, met with other Harvard and Radcliffe students and administrators, and the overbearing topic was the unhealthy nature of single-sex housing. It was a “heated” discussion—she, like other men and women, argued that they should live together to foster natural, unforced relationships...
...have declined each quarter this year compared with last. Blockbuster has responded by investing in video-game rentals and launching its own online subscription service. It's "surprising that Blockbuster would choose to spend so much reinforcing its presence in the brick-and-mortar portion of this business," says Marla Backer, a Research Associates--Soleil analyst. If the Blockbuster deal is struck, the combined company will control roughly 50% of the traditional rental market--which means antitrust regulators will probably get involved. Movie Gallery notes that this is not a problem its bid is likely to face.--By Unmesh Kher