Word: marvinism
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...family rather than family value" opened last night! If the above clever turn of phrase is not enough to attract you the the second performance, consider: How often does Harvard perform a Tony-Award winning musical? And how often does such a musical include a character named "Whizzer," whom "Marvin" is in love with...
...month before he leaves Cambridge to head up the new Washington, D.C. division of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Marvin Kalb has been honored with an endowed chair just created in his honor--a professorship of global communications at the Kennedy School of Government...
...here, he is a presence--in that he is irreplaceable. However, he has created something [the Center] and therefore, in another way, he is replaceable, although it may be difficult to find someone with the array of Marvin's talents," he said...
Parker noted that "Marvin's really widely admired, especially by the donor [former Iranian Finance Minister and Houston oil tycoon Hushang Ansary], as the one who's built the department essentially from scratch when he arrived...
...prosecution had badges, and they had stories to tell: Volpe leading Haitian immigrant Abner Louima into a bathroom, Volpe boasting about having sodomized Louima with a stick, Volpe brandishing said stick, Volpe returning bloodstained gloves to a fellow officer in the NYPD. And so Volpe's lawyer, local star Marvin Kornberg, never even presented a defense, and the disgraced cop is pleading guilty to all charges. He faces 25 years to life -- and will probably get more rather than less. "Besides the sheer awfulness of what he did, Volpe really didn't give the government any reason for leniency," says...