Word: prem
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Fugitive Martin Frankel, 44, a.k.a. Michael King, a.k.a. David Rosse, a.k.a. Eric Stevens, the financier who is accused of embezzling more than $200 million from a slew of insurance companies, and his traveling companion, Cindy Allison, 35, a.k.a. Susan Kelley, lounged in their Hotel Prem suite. They were watching the movie Patch Adams. For the fifth time...
...those who haven't jumped on a 10-10-whatever train or discovered the plethora of discount phone cards available at the Prem La Market on Mt. Auburn Street, the campus phone bill is a monthly test of a sufficiently endowed BankBoston account. But the thieves don't stop there: the true BIG rip-off regarding the on-campus phone bill is actually found not within--but stuck on the envelope...
...even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last week. The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that would be a courtyard). To Sealfon, whose shouted staccato spelling style was startling to the uninitiated, the whole experience must have seemed oneiric. (Look...
...word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting out the obligatory re-spell -- "Euonym!" -- and bouncing around the stage in sheer joy. Runner-up Prem Murthy Trivedi of Howell, N.J. went dictionary-to-dictionary alone with Rebecca for nine rounds before bowing out on "cortile," a word meaning courtyard. The two were the final survivors of the original field of 245. And then there...
Other panelists were: Pankaj Ghemawat '71, a professor at the Business School, who discussed aspects on "Economic Reform in a Democracy"; and Prem Shankar Jha, former adviser to the government of India and one of the most prominent economic journalists in India today...