Word: marvins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...free-market incentive, cash. To Nicholson's stunned family, who spoke to Time last week, that image didn't square with the idealistic, spiritual man and devoted father they knew. "Jim's whole life has been a commitment to the U.S. government and to his job," said his father Marvin, a retired Air Force master sergeant living near Eugene, Oregon. "Greed?" asked brother Robert. "That...
...well as "impromptu meetings" with other Administration bigwigs. Reacting to the public's outrage, party officials pledged to stop such explicit quid pro quos. At the time, party co-chair Don Fowler said, "The President is concerned about certain appearances of marketing the presidency." But some contributors say Marvin Rosen, the Democratic Party's finance chairman, has privately resumed the practice. Donors tell TIME that Rosen, a Miami lawyer, recited a laundry list of benefits to the big-money contributors he met in New York City and elsewhere. For $100,000, they say, Rosen has said a giver...
...Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, is more forthright in his characterization of the new hiring practices. He writes in an e-mail message, "It is no mystery, nor is it much of a story, that Harvard has often been seen as liberal.... It was very much in the School's interests--and certainly in the students' interests--to understand the new conservative tide in Washington and the country. Government is what the Kennedy School teaches. Therefore, conservative leaders have been invited to the School, and more and more of them have...
...They are much more appreciative of the power of press and television to fashion a public policy issue," explains Marvin L. Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center for Press and Public Policy...
Cineplexes will turn into pre-med lecture halls for the study of leukemia (Marvin's Room, with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) and mental illness (Shine, the acclaimed Australian film about pianist David Helfgott). There also will be political seminars on intolerance (The Crucible, with Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the First Amendment as it applies to porn peddlers (The People vs. Larry Flynt, with Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love...