Word: irwin
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...more likely to produce dimpled chads in the vote for President than for other offices, because that column gets clogged by getting the most use and therefore harder to punch out cleanly as the day goes on. Boies took special delight in his statistician, a Yale professor resembling Professor Irwin Corey, who pointed out that the undervote in counties that used punch cards was five times as high as that in counties that used other methods. But Boies has also shown uncharacteristic passion in the election battle. Alarmed that "a mob stormed the canvassing board" in Miami to stop...
KIDS LOVE: The Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin, which changes with the seasons. They flock to Vincent van Gogh's Irises and The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark by Jan Bruegel the Elder. Best of all, kids can view Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven by Jean-Etienne Liotard, then go to the Family Room, where there is a reproduction, complete with 18th century period costumes...
...Galati, who won two Tony awards for The Grapes of Wrath, is the director; and Kathleen Marshall, who choreographed Kiss Me, Kate and many of the enthralling Encores! musical revivals, is in charge of the dancing. David Shiner, the Cirque du Soleil veteran who shone on Broadway with Bill Irwin in Fool Moon, will play the Cat in the Hat, who serves as the show's narrator. If the new show resembles any Broadway standard, it would be a certain feline adaptation of T.S. Eliot's poems for children. That show opened 18 years ago; it will close this month...
...Enter Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis-based financier whose takeover antics in the 1980s struck fear into the hearts of companies like ITT and Disney. Jacobs, a reformed predator, now runs Genmar Holdings, a remnant of his buccaneering days and a company whose principal business is building pleasure boats. Boatbuilding is messy, environmentally hazardous and so unpleasant a job that Genmar has a hard time getting workers to do it. Pyramid built a few test hulls for Genmar, but Kirila's system wasn't refined enough for Jacobs' engineers. "They were 90% there, and we needed 100%," says Jacobs...
DIED. KENNY IRWIN, 30, up-and-coming stock-car racer; after suffering multiple injuries when he crashed into a wall at the New Hampshire International Speedway--on the same turn that killed 19-year-old Adam Petty two months ago; in Loudon...