Word: warren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called it a "pretty pathetic thing" that many wealthy people give little to charity, and he has said Forbes magazine's ranking of wealthy Americans discourages giving, because those on the list don't want to slip down. He has even singled out fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for criticism, but he denied last week that his gift was intended to send a message to any specific person. Gates has already "dramatically increased the amount he has given," Turner says. "I'm not on anyone's case right now." His role models range from billionaire philanthropist George Soros...
...fall's new hit sitcom. But can Alley really succeed where other Cheers alums have failed? Though Kelsey Grammer's Frasier is a ratings hit for NBC, Ted Danson (Sam), Rhea Perlman (Carla) and George Wendt (Norm) have all bombed in series over the past year. NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield signed up Veronica's Closet for only 13 episodes, but he notes that Alley's producers, Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the creative team behind Friends, weren't just handed the precious post-Seinfeld time slot as a gift. "On other shows, producers drink wine and congratulate...
...already done most of the things that I need to do, but now I need to work on my interviewing skills so I can sell myself," said John R. Warren...
...they spoke I realized that, in my excitement over the light and efficiency of the new, I had forgotten the comfort and dusty elegance of the old. Warren House was home to many English department members for a very long time. Despite, or more accurately because of, its creaking stairs and dark hallways, it seemed to fit right into one part of the mythical Harvard academic atmosphere...
...change for the sake of real progress, change for the sake of our faculty and students (i.e., decent offices and classrooms in the Barker Center) is, of course, necessary. So I've come to grips about the English Department's losing Warren House. Construction is ongoing now on that building, and workers are cleaning the bathroom of the fictional bloodstains from Amanda Cross (a.k.a. Carolyn Heilbrun)'s Death in a Tenured Position so that the Women Studies Program will soon have a new old space to call its own, smack dab on top of the scene of the original crime...