Word: robert
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...been the glue that holds the council together," said Preceptor in Mathematics Robert Winters, the publisher of the Cambridge Civic Journal, a monthly political newsletter...
According to the Globe, Russell's departure leaves uncertain the fate of City Manager Robert W. Healy, whose current contract expires next summer...
Wetherell sees Net company valuations through a mathematical as much as a financial lens. He loves to cite Metcalfe's Law of Connectivity as the driving force behind his approach. The law, set down by Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, states that the value of an interactive network--such as Lycos, Yahoo or AOL--is a function of the number of people attached to the network; and value increases exponentially when another person comes online. Thus a network of 10 people is at least four times as valuable as one with five. What this means is that every extra...
Only 39, Glyn Maxwell is an accomplished poet, being likened to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost. He is the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forester Prize, and The Breakage is on the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist for 1998. Now a professor at Amherst College, Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England. His British heritage, apparent in his writing, dominates many of his poems concerned with historical events in English history or merely sprinkles his other poetry with British lingo and allusions...
...latest in a growing trend of age-skewed Hollywood hook-ups, Entrapment follows an intricate game of cat and mouse played out by Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery), a master thief, and Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones), an insurance investigator who's looking to beat MacDougal at his own game. It's in the mold of a twisty-turny, psychological spy thriller, complete with deceit, intrigue, romance, and double-crossing...