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Another strong aspect of Riley’s candidacy is his familiarity with Harvard’s roster. He coached seniors Rob Fried, Tyler Kolarik and Dennis Packard, sophomore Peter Hafner and freshman Steve Mandes in USA Hockey tournaments...
Their instructor, Peter Lee, a student at Brown Medical School, has coached six teams from Brown for the NASA program. He proposed the idea to his Harvard class after practice in the spring of 2002, and the rest was history...
...know about Dr. Goebbels?" and then, more seriously, says, "He's a very competent propagandist; none better. But he's lost his compass bearings on the truth. What we have seen is the sloganizing of British political debate, the reduction of all argument into positioning and language crafting." Peter Oborne, author of a judicious 1999 biography of Campbell whose attitudes have since hardened, says: "This government had so much good will in 1997. Alastair is the one most responsible that they have this reputation for mendacity, and have made so many unnecessary enemies." In person Campbell seems an unlikely Goebbels...
...Stifler, though he might do comedy again because he really liked being a cohost of last month's MTV Movie Awards with Justin Timberlake. But first he's backpacking with a friend through Europe. Then he'll return to promote this fall's The Rundown, a Peter Berg--directed action movie with the Rock, in which he hopes the serious Scott can break through. "I know people will say it's Stifler and the wrestler," he says. But he's O.K. with that. It turns out, he says, that more women walk up to him interested in Stifler than angry...
...Denied Pardon. Peter Bleach, British arms dealer serving a life sentence for parachut-ing crates of arms into eastern India; in New Delhi. Bleach was arrested in Bombay with an aircrew from Russia in 1995. The crew received a presidential pardon in 2000 after Moscow intervened. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed for Bleach's release during Indian Deputy Premier L.K. Advani's trip to London in June. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christen Nielson, was never captured and the intended recipients of the weapons never identified...