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They also occasionally parlay success in the sports world into much bigger things (witness NBC head honcho Jeff Zucker ’86, who is also a Crimson editor, who has won five Emmys since taking a sports researching job with NBC during the 1988 Seoul Olympics...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BAMMA SLAMMA | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...talent Josh Klimkiewicz, on the other hand, was unable to parlay an impressive junior year into summertime success...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salsgiver Becomes All-Star at Cape | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

...Follow the money," Deep Throat immortally advised Woodward, and the fact that Felt was now himself doing so, trying to parlay his Vanity Fair confession into a book deal, distressed some people. Besides retaining their looks, the spring in their stride, people who do good things are not supposed to cash in on them--however belatedly. That Felt may have had other, less than noble motives for his actions--he was angry at the Nixon Administration because he was passed over for the directorship of the FBI--also counted against him. When altruism is tainted by apparently mean--actually entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Secrets in the Parking Garage | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard women’s basketball coach had a rare opportunity to parlay her gesture towards team success. At 30.8 percent from the field against Penn, the Crimson (11-6, 3-1 Ivy) needed all the offensive help that it could...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stingy Defense Allows W. Basketball To Trip Quakers in Tight Contest | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...appears to be attempting to trade on fears of clerical and Iranian influence in the UIA and even hoping to cherry-pick allies from within the improbably broad Shiite coalition. The goal would be to use the provisions of the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) governing the process to parlay a minority share of the vote into a leading role in government. That's because the TAL, drawn up by U.S. administrator Paul Bremer, essentially requires the support of two thirds of the National Assembly for a new government. The process begins with the Assembly choosing, by two thirds majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Political Storms in Iraq? | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

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