Word: mister
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Corzine has yet to master public speaking or the nuances of public policy, but he has emerged as more than a human checkbook. A mix of Mister Rogers and Warren Buffett, he talks softly and lives simply in a plain house in Summit. He earned his money the old-fashioned, pre-dotcom way, as one of the most successful, nerves-of-steel bond traders in Wall Street history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois and a former Marine, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's business school and up the ladder at Goldman...
...controversial comic strip inspired Asian-American students to form alliances with groups like BSA and RAZA to voice their concerns. The Asian American Association (AAA) led the effort to alter The Crimson's "The Misanthropic Mister Chu," authored by Andrew Haiwen Chu '02 and Alexis G. Burgess '02, arguing that the strip reinforces stereotypes about Asians...
...Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling to Baffert's villain...
...California. Well, Josh said, he attends school in Massachusetts. Which one? The keg master was curious. A seasoned senior, I interrupted to ask what fine institution the keg master attended during daylight hours, and when he replied Umass-Amherst, I playfully punched Josh’s arm and told Mister Keg that Josh and I attend UMass-Boston. He bought it, and Josh got his beer sans spittle. You laugh, but two friends later told me that they ditched their beer, finding it “funny tasting” after having been alma-mater - truthful...
...have noticed the debate over the comic strip "The Misanthropic Mister Chu." Permit me to propose the renaming of the comic strip to "The Misanthropic Mister Celt...