Word: nelsons
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...Mark's used to getting his way. He needs to get over that. I've told him, 'Be careful. Everybody's going to think you're crazy.'" - Jeff Swaney, an old friend of Cuban's, on his public feud with former Mavericks coach Don Nelson (Fortune...
...thousand dollars to over $100,000. Penn State—the first school to partner with the network in 1973—raised over $5.2 million in 2007. At Harvard, the concept behind the marathon was spearheaded by Nneka F. Ufere ’08, Emily J. Nelson ’08, and Natasia A. De Silva ’08 in the summer of 2007 and pitched to the board members of HCS and HPS as a potentially lucrative fundraiser. Ufere, Nelson, and De Silva, with the help of Verma and David Mattos ’09, began recruiting...
Universal Waste started off with a post co-written by all the writers—Tyler W. Bosmeny ’09, Markus R. T. Kolic ’09, Matthews, Maryellen C. McGowan ’09, Garrett G. D. Nelson ’09, Randall Sarafa ’09, Prithvi R. Shankar ’09, and Matthew L. Sundquist...
...first African woman to win a Grammy, Makeba, known affectionately as "Mama Africa," traveled to New York City in 1963. She appeared before the U.N.'s special committee on apartheid to plead for intervention in South Africa. Her nation repaid Makeba by exiling her until 1990, when President Nelson Mandela personally asked her to return...
...Harvard School of Public Health recently found that Mbeki’s decision to reject HIV drugs as unsafe nine years ago cost 330,000 lives. And, in 2001, he made wild accusations against three leaders of his own political party—who were later defended by Nelson Mandela—that they were plotting his ouster. A man with such partiality and dangerously fickle leadership could never be a legitimate mediator...