Word: steve
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...coach initiated a mentoring program called TeamMates, pairing 25 of his Cornhuskers with 25 children. The goal was to have these college athletes-cum-mentors stay with their charges from the kids' first year in middle school through the last day of high school. Recalls former offensive guard Steve Volin of his coach: "He always stuck by people who others thought should be tossed in the gutter." The Osbornes kicked off TeamMates in 1991 with $10,000 of their personal savings. Since then, they've contributed $400,000 more, most for college scholarships. Former running back George Achola remembers...
...quickly became clear that certain elements typical of Disney-style animated films would be out of place. A talking camel was cut. Comics Steve Martin and Martin Short, cast as charlatan priests, were directed to turn in subdued performances. Lucrative tie-ins were another sensitive issue. Katzenberg says, semiseriously, "We came up with the Red Sea boogie board. We had the 40-years-in-the-desert water bottle. We had the parting-of-the-Red-Sea shower curtain." But ultimately, both DreamWorks and its partner Burger King concluded that they would be doing themselves "a terrible disservice" if they pushed...
...Boasts Steve Jobs, Pixar's CEO and Lasseter's understandably proud boss: "John Lasseter is the closest thing we have to Walt Disney today." Could be. Toy Story, Lasseter's first computer-animated feature, released in 1995, has reaped an estimated $1 billion for Pixar and its production-partner Disney in box-office, video and licensing revenues. But more important, Disney is betting that its heroes Buzz and Woody will endure for generations of kids to come. Says Peter Schneider, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation: "Look at Walt Disney's legacy: he told great stories, with great characters...
...rally's opening speech, Steve Michael, a housing advocate in Boston, told an allegorical story about the organization's founding...
...rare opportunity for us to see what's going on in North Korea" said Steve W. Chung '01, co-chair for education and politics for the Korean Association...