Word: stan
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Another proctor, Carl Stan McGee, is a third-year student at the Law school. A Rhodes Scholar who lived in France for a year, he resides in Mower with his partner John H. Finely IV '92, whose grandfather was master of Eliot House...
...show is clearly the product of two minds that have clocked a fair number of hours watching the work of Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head) and Matt Groening (The Simpsons). The four main characters--Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny--have grating voices and feeble minds and show no aversion to scatological humor. The title, South Park, refers to the setting, a small hamlet where teachers are dolts, the mayor's first move in times of crisis is to call her personal stylist, and the school cook, in the show's wittiest turn, often breaks into imitation Barry White songs...
...informal survey suggests that Roswellians themselves are generally less inspired by the whole thing than amused, although some--Christian Fundamentalists in particular--are offended by the city's growing embrace of its unique legacy. "There's kind of a love-hate relationship with this thing," says Stan Crosby, a self-described oil-and-gas man who is the chief organizer of Roswell UFO Encounter '97 (he is married to the director of the International UFO Museum, the glitzier rival to the Enigma). "It's not like we have the prettiest beach," admits Crosby, "or the Carlsbad Caverns. But you know...
...campaign tactics that the President has used successfully twice. Several Labour operatives worked in the Clinton 1992 campaign and produced a confidential memo detailing "lessons learned." They urged Blair to ape Clinton's vaunted "rapid response" operation, its extensive phone banking and--thanks to the President's '92 pollster, Stan Greenberg (who is currently working with Labour)--more sophisticated survey techniques than were then common in Britain. "I'd say the most valuable things we've learned from the Americans are the need to respond instantly to any and all attacks and the imperative to stay 'on message,'" says Gordon...
...DIED. STAN DRAKE, 75, cartoonist; in Norwalk, Connecticut. After working for an ad agency, he turned to illustrating and in 1953 created the sentimental romantic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones. At one time, 600 newspapers carried the award-winning strip. Beginning in 1989, Drake illustrated the domestic adventures of Blondie...