Word: movers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coffey has a proven reputation as a mover and shaker. He has been an efficient organizer of the kind of events a glorified dance committee sponsors. Coffey's record of hard--though sometimes misguided--work makes him a fairly reliable candidate for vice president...
...faculty--and by this we mean to expand the diversity of academic perspectives within the faculty--we fail to see where Harvard's existing departments fail in this regard. We have professors who examine intellectual history, and some few, perhaps, who still look at dialectical materialism as the prime mover, but we do not feel compelled to establish separate disciplines for their work...
Thomas didn't set out to make headlines or case law. A former furniture mover with an interest in computers, he opened his BBS in 1991 with 12 photos and a single phone line. He worked hard. He regularly put in 16-hour days, sometimes staying up all night to scan new, hard-to-find photos for his collection. At the time of his indictment he was spending $500 a week on fresh material, much of it sent by scouts as far away as Denmark and Brazil. The slogan for his bulletin board came from closer to home, however...
...Louis, Missouri. Author of 17 books, Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for George Mills, which-in a plot typical of his absurdist bent-follows a thousand-year lineage of losers with the same name, from a misguided medieval crusader to a furniture mover in present-day St. Louis. Elkin remained a prolific writer despite suffering from multiple sclerosis...
...Frank is largely responsible for the improvement," says Eugene E. Kim '96, former president of the Harvard Computer Society (HCS). "He is a mover and shaker and gets things done quickly and efficiently...