Word: nair
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...other illnesses, Masry's work led to a landmark $333 million settlement and a lasting friendship with his similarly brassy aide. "No one has called me more names than Erin Brockovich and I've called her everything in the book," he said. "But we love each other." DIED. DEVAN NAIR, 82, former President of Singapore who later became a critic of the city-state's government; in Hamilton, Canada. Nair, the son of a rubber-plantation clerk, rose to prominence as a union leader before reluctantly accepting the largely ceremonial position of President in 1981. He resigned in 1985 after...
...Academy of Sciences regarding what they call an omission among this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, half of which Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 won for his contributions to quantum optics.Led by Ranjit Nair, the director of the Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science in New Delhi, India, the authors of the petition contend that E. C. George Sudarshan, professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, should have been recognized along with Glauber.Sudarshan is president of the Board of Advisors...
...stereotype of Indian women as passive extensions of their men, women have won legendary victories over men. Spotlighting the heroism of women in India, the drama stayed true to the storytelling roots of traditional Bharatnatyam dance, depicting the Hindu myths of Chamundeshwari Devi, Saavitri, and Obavva. Although Rohini Nair ’08 prefaced each act admirably by reciting summaries of the drama’s parts, multiple complex names made the plotline from Hindu mythology hard to follow. Thus, audience understanding of the program might have benefited from written summaries. In the first act of the show, the square...
...treasurer, Chiki E. Gupta ’08 as secretary, Rohan Kekre ’08 as Academic/Political Chair, Aditi Mallick ’08 as Cultural Chair, Mayuri N. Shah ’08 as Social Chair, Meghan Pasricha ’08 as Outreach Chair, Rohini Nair ’08 and Ravi K. Manglani ’08 as Publicity Chair, and Julie Goswami ’08 as Historian...
...award—which was inaugurated with its presentation to actor Jack Lemmon ’47 in 1995—has previously been awarded to such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, John Updike ’54, and Mira Nair...