Word: nelsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stengel graduated in 1977 from Princeton University - where he and Kelly were classmates - and played on the school's 1975 NIT-winning basketball team. He is the author of several books and collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African leader's bestselling autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. He has been a frequent commentator on CNN and MSNBC, and his eclectic career also included a stint in 1999 as senior advisor and chief speechwriter for presidential candidate Bill Bradley...
...adequate precautions. (They had scheduled an appointment to see her the following day.) When a judge last year refused to throw out the suit, alarm bells went off in administrative offices across the country. "To hold a university liable for simply trying to help a student is extraordinary," says Nelson Roth, Cornell's deputy university counsel, explaining why the school joined six others in supporting M.I.T. in the case. Shin's death was a tragedy, Roth says, "but not every tragedy warrants a lawsuit...
...reduce overcrowding in centrally located dining halls during peak meal hours. While there was a consensus about the existence of a problem, the committee did not decide on a solution, instead opting to further study the situation, according to Associate Dean of Harvard College for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson. “On [interhouse] restrictions, we’ll study the grazing patterns before we decide,” she said. —Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
...preventable tragedy occurred 28 years ago, in Jonestown, Guyana. Some 900 members of Jim Jones? People?s Temple - souls cleansed, brains washed - took poison and died at his command. Stanley Nelson?s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of People?s Temple interviews survivors and kin of the dead, and has a trove of footage to illuminate, if not explain, the seductive, destructive power of the Temple prophet...
...Staff writer Emily J. Nelson can be reached at ejnelson@fas.harvard.edu...