Word: baron
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Harris not only inherited close to $7 million from her late grandfather, a citrus and cattle baron. She also received a legacy of fierce ambition. She unleashed it in 1994 by winning a state senate seat. Veteran pols like Poole, who helped her in that campaign, were dazzled by her "unbelievable drive." In the 1998 race that saw her elected to her current post, she engaged in some of the most steely-eyed mudslinging seen in the state in many years--and in the primaries the mud was flung against a G.O.P. friend and mentor. But that hard-won post...
...faded glory of the Adams House Pool's marble and brass primes the stage for a play concerned with decadence and lost time. It takes place entirely in an inn for drifters. The 17 characters range from a baron (M. Daniel Hughes '01) down to a girl of the streets (Jessica B. Kirschner '01). All of them have unique difficulties so that no single one predominates. Peppel (Jared M. Greene '03), the coolly effective driving force of the play, drops out entirely after the third act. None talk about where they come from or where they are going; any attempts...
...some analysts say CyberWorks' problems go deeper than short-term stock volatility. Several strategic joint ventures aimed at turning the younger Li into Asia's most dynamic multimedia baron have failed to materialize in recent months. One deal was intended to enable CyberWorks to distribute Chinese-language content to the mainland. CyberWorks has also been unable to persuade Japanese Internet giant Softbank to distribute its Network of the World (NOW), a broadband Internet service delivered across Asia to television sets, computers and wireless devices. "This suggests it isn't as attractive as its potential partners once thought it was," says...
produced by Nicole Ruiz '02 and Suzanne Baron...
When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he saw, improvising accents he imagined might match them...