Word: thanking
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...then he got well. The tumor disappeared. Tumors sometimes do that, of course. But Fuerst knows whom to thank. "My professors would be turning over in their graves," he says with a grin. "It's a shame more doctors don't listen...
Look at an American independent film, and chances are the background trees will be in bloom. You can thank Robert Redford for that. Sundance Film Festival, the Park City, Utah, showcase he took over in 1985, is now so crucial for indie auteurs that many plan their movies around it. "They'll shoot in the spring," says Todd Solondz, whose Welcome to the Dollhouse won Sundance's top prize this year, "then edit in the summer and finish by the fall deadline so they can be shown at Sundance in January...
Thomas has also been a great cheerleader. It was her idea to send flowers to everyone who helped them in their speaker search. She also led the effort to thank the House representatives for all of their help with the enormous amount of Class Committee work. With her direction, the Marshals stuffed bags full of candy and other goodies to give to each representative...
...That was the first Commencement after the war was all over, so I'm sure the powers that be thought that was the time to say thank you to the military," says Robert S. Sturgis '44, a former Crimson president who graduated...
...Jack Kevorkian seems for now to have reached Celebrity Heaven, the very Eye of the Hoopla, which is to say he is never completely out of the news these days, what with going to court or coming from court or explaining what happened in court. "Thank God for the jury system," said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, after the Doc's latest trial in Michigan, and well he might. Simply by punching a couple of jury-pleasing buttons, the team of Kevorkian and Fieger should be able to keep their show on the boards and out of jail forever, until...