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Chet was also a key player behind three franchises that remain among the most popular in sports television--SportsCenter, the early-round coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and the National Football League draft telecast. Along the way, he gave many young women and men a shot. He hired me at ESPN and my brother Bryant at NBC. These jobs were our first network career breaks...
...returned from Kenya to find that his ex-girlfriend Nikki (Rebecca E. Feinberg ’13) had moved on and started dating a dude by the name of Wes Dooley (Cameron M. Johnstone ’12), who happened to be the star of the popular movie “Dartek” (directed by "Transformers" director Michael Bay, of course). The only people in the world of the Ivory Tower who don’t seem entirely captivated by Dooley’s charm are Rob, his friend Mel (Caroline R. Giuliani...
...course is just one incarnation of the food-science trend at Harvard. Every year, SEAS offers a popular holiday lecture series, including topics such as “The Sweet Science of Chocolate” and “Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza...
...they live almost solely for their herds." Heavy-handed Tsarist and eventually Soviet rule saw the migration of a significant population of Russians as well as the dilution of Kyrgyz culture. New tree-lined urban centers like Bishkek as well as spas along the land's salt lakes became popular destinations for Russians escaping the industrial grimness further north. As in elsewhere in Central Asia, Cyrillic is the adopted script and vodka shops abound...
...journalists who pried into allegations of corruption - all the while, Kyrgyzstan's economy floundered, its Soviet-era industry and agriculture withering away while tens of thousands quit the country for low-paying jobs in resource-rich Kazakhstan or Russia. In February 2005, after a round of allegedly rigged elections, popular sentiment boiled over and precipitated mass protests the following month dubbed the "Tulip Revolution" that saw Akayev step down and leave for exile in Moscow...