Word: nathan
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First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...
TIME reported last week that Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold's leave of absence was, according to some sources at the company, engineered by president Steve Ballmer. Myhrvold, who has occasionally written for TIME, assures us--and other Microsoft executives agree--that his leave was his own choice and that he has not been spending half his time on his own outside interests. We did not mean to spoil the joy of his well-earned leave...
...Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, one of Radcliffe's staunchest supporters, said he didn't see how the students of two colleges, with two separate administrations, could live together...
...vision could not be realized until his successor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, could raise money and bring the affluence to Harvard that Conant's vision required...
...Nathan M. Pusey '28 becomes 24th president...