Word: sachems
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...casino's version of frequent flyer miles is referred to as "wampum"--there is even a sleek new museum of Pequot history and culture in one corner of the reservation. The tribe's spiffy new high speed ferry is painted an earthy mauve tone and named after Sassacus, the sachem who lead the tribe against the English during the disastrou...
Freshman hurler Dan Sachem (1-0), who won his first career game, shut Northeastern down for four straight innings, and Harvard went into the bottom of the ninth needing...
...Sachem and Linden stepped up to keep Harvard in the game after a shaky beginning. Such clutch long relief performances are the kind of things that happen when things are going right for a team...
...documentary committee was irresponsible or unethical. With regard to my involvement, I do not think a single voting member of the committee this year knew that my company was distributing D-Day Remembered [which received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature]. Also, to suggest that I am a committee sachem" is false, since I have not been a member for the past four years, nor have I been involved in making rules or running the committee. Mitchell W. Block, President Direct Cinema Limited Santa Monica, California...
...stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell Block. He insists the decision process is pure: "It's not that people nominate their friends. It's that their friends are really talented...