Word: harrison
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...phenomenon like the Beatles." - Michael Harrison, editor and publisher of Talkers magazine. The New York Times Magazine, July...
...think [Bosworth] would be a very good appointment. He has had experience in the most senior levels." - Selig Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy. Boston Globe...
...mainstream U.S. response: that they were a passing fancy, that their music was derivative, and that the funniest thing about them were their haircuts. It was the last gasp of an adult establishment that felt secure in dismissing anything new, scorning anything young; and the Beatles were both. (George Harrison, when he and his mates made their Sullivan debut, was younger than Kevin Jonas is now.) In the intervening decades, the mainstream has learned its lesson: not to deride what kids love but to embrace and exploit it. Just like Disney...
...Percy Harrison Fawcett was the quintessential dashing late-Victorian explorer. Almost too late--he was born in 1867, when the world was starting to run low on terra incognita. Tall, steely and virtually indestructible, he spent much of his life mapping the Amazon basin. In 1925 he set out to find a legendary city he called Z, a glittering oasis of civilization supposedly sequestered deep in the jungle. Whereupon the jungle, having nibbled at him for decades, ate him alive...
...Crimson really should have won this game when the two met in Cambridge earlier this month. Harvard will have senior forward and Palestra favorite Evan Harris back, but junior Doug Miller will probably miss out. Guard Harrison Gaines is back for the Quakers after being sick for the earlier fixture. Advantage Penn. The Crimson must wait another year to win a game on this road trip. Penn 67, Harvard...