Word: spread
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Before becoming president he was sports editor of the paper, writing frequently about football and baseball. Sometimes he blends sports and news; in a two page spread called "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" he shows how Harvard put poisoned corn at the stadium in an attempt to kill off its pigeon population...
While all this may sound good--by 1998, Wu-Tang, Inc., was grossing more than $25 million a year--RZA, Divine and Oli Grant, the band's corporate brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that the W is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears," says RZA. For brands trying to be cool, though, ubiquity can be a bad thing--just ask Gucci. The W began showing up on too many things, while the band hardly showed up at all. It got to a point...
...immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing Western decadence and advocating a return to Muslim values. Yet Ramadan says, "I'm a European who has grown up here. I don't deny my Muslim roots, but I don't vilify Europe either...
...years ago, after suffering from depression, alcoholism and eating disorders. While lying on the floor of a halfway-house attic, she suddenly achieved a sense of "clarity," realizing her troubles stemmed from relating "outward" to the world. She began holding informal sessions at her Mojave Desert home, and word spread of her teachings. Supported by donations and sales of audiotapes and videos from her base in Manhattan Beach, Calif., Katie travels the globe as host to workshops for corporate managers and bring her message to everyone from prison inmates to abused children. "I just know that people want...
...plethora of student groups has not been changed since 1983. Because of inflation, the purchasing power of this term bill fund has eroded. Furthermore, incoming class sizes have remained relatively constant while the number of on-campus student groups has rapidly increased. This has meant that money is spread across the campus more thinly than ever. Only raising the term bill fee will enable the council to allocate student group money effectively...