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...study is the latest initiative of the University's Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul S. Grogan, who took over the position in January. Since Grogan's appointment, Harvard has spun into high gear over the past year to improve strained relations with its community, including the University's re-negotiation in August of the payment in lieu of taxes it pays to Boston...
RESULT Have Rudy's tough-on-crime tactics spun the police force out of control...
...Turn of the Century" is sponsored by the cable network A&E, which is only appropriate considering that the channel helped spawn TV's biomania with its 12-year-old Biography. This franchise draws A&E's highest prime-time ratings and has spun off CDs, videos, a digital all-bio channel and a magazine whose readership A&E places at more than 2 million. The program's thesis is simple: people are more interested in history that has a famous face on it. "We live in an age of celebrity," says Michael Cascio, A&E's senior vice president...
...down, Sam," the frizzy red-haired lady firmly told her young son. The boy, who looked about eight or nine years old, gave his mother a mischievous grin and raced across the subway car to grab one of the silver poles and spun himself around while the beige and orange shades blurred before his eyes...
...former owners of United Press International, scoundrels whose skullduggery contributed to the proud organization's demise. A sadistic smile creeps across the man's face as he pictures UPI's former owners clutching steel bars. With good reason, of course; after all, he was one of nearly a thousand spun off into reporting oblivion as the company fell into its death spiral...