Word: gibney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last month, Gibney's film Taxi to the Dark Side won the 2008 Academy Award for "Best Documentary" for its exploration of the Bush administration's policy on torture and interrogation at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Detention Centers. He dedicated the film to its central character, a 22-year-old taxi driver from Afghanistan who was detained and later beaten to death by American soldiers in December...
SOUTH HAMILTON—The chortling horses, long-handled mallets, and cries of celebration returned to Gibney Field yesterday. The Harvard Polo Club, which has struggled to find a permanent place at the University since the late 19th century, jockeyed to victory in its first game of the school year against the Myopia Polo Club in South Hamilton. Polo has a long and rich history at Harvard. It was a popular pastime in the 1800s and returned sporadically in the past century. Last school year, a group of students revived the club with the help of head coach Crocker Snow...
...DIED. FRANK GIBNEY, 81, author and former TIME correspondent who gave wary Americans some of the first accessible, textured portraits of Japan after World War II; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Among the former Navy intelligence officer's books were Five Gentlemen of Japan and The Pacific Century, which in the early 1990s became an Emmy-winning documentary...
DIED. Frank Gibney, 81, author and former TIME correspondent who gave wary Americans some of the first accessible, textured portraits of Japan after World War II; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Among the former Navy intelligence officer's books were Five Gentlemen of Japan and The Pacific Century, which in the early 1990s became an Emmy-winning documentary...
...Gibney says he doesn't think Enron "set out to become fraudulent." At first it was just trying to cover up relatively modest failures. But watching Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, we realize we're not smart enough, attentive enough or sufficiently lacking in greed to penetrate the next great fraud when it rolls down--not if its masters truly believe in it and keep beaming. --By Richard Schickel