Word: neils
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...immigrant family and raised in Montreal, Gilles was drawing cars at age 8. In the early 1980s, his sketches caught the attention of an aunt, who wrote to Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca for advice. A few weeks later, a letter urging Gilles to attend design school arrived from K. Neil Walling, then Chrysler's design chief. Following a stint at an engineering college in Montreal, where Gilles says he spent too much time "drawing cars in class," he eventually enrolled in Detroit's College for Creative Studies...
...entertainment franchises in the world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with...
...seriously uphill fight, and one of Mandelson's key jobs will be to help lead it. Opponents of the constitution say: Bring him on. "Who better to put the case for the European constitution than a discredited politician whose name is a byword for lies and spin?" asks Neil O'Brien, campaign director for Vote No. A more immediate problem for Blair is a by-election for Mandelson's parliamentary seat, which may give the antiwar Liberal Democrats another chance to exploit unhappiness with Iraq to overturn a large Labour majority. Blair, who's now on summer holiday, is betting...
...proud that my knowledge went beyond mere stats. I liked that I knew Paul O’Neil was a relentless perfectionist who would practice his swing while exiled to the long lulls of right field play, or that Bernie Williams considered a career as a jazz guitarist before settling on baseball...
It’s been more than a year since Neil Rose ’02-’03 and Nick Palazzo ’03 led Harvard to glory on the gridiron...