He played for Bobby Knight in college and Red Holzman in the pros and once helped Larry Brown coach his way to his only N.B.A. championship.
Mr. Abdallah, who has been convicted of fraud and other white-collar crimes and once helped film a crime-prevention video after being arrested on charges of credit card fraud, was charged yesterday with criminal possession of forged devices, stolen property, scheming to defraud and criminal impersonation.
Mullah Egesh Makhamadali takes an active part in all health campaigns and once helped to convince a local woman to bring her child for a routine vaccination.
A black BBC correspondent friend of mine – a no-nonsense Northerner through and through – was once helping the movers get him and his wife into a Washington DC house while on assignment.
Reichardt noted that Eisenberg lived in a yurt during part of the shoot, also working on the farm where the film was being shot and more than once helping to get a truck unstuck from the mud.
I traded used books for cents; books I had annotated, tagged with colored post-its, and that once helped provide some semblance of order and morality around the fickle fundaments of my life.
Sony's Trinitron TVs and Walkmans once helped build a fearsomely large Japanese trade surplus, but nowadays the country suffers a deficit, and foreign smartphones account for about a fifth of it.One consolation is that consumer electronics is an impossible business for nearly all firms, says Eiichi Katayama of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, so competitive has it become.
And he once helped Spin magazine rank, by offensiveness level, music videos that featured dwarves.
The dictator would often courteously let his mother pass ahead of any parades and even once helped evacuate her friend's son from Bolivia during a violent uprising, arranging for him to be airlifted to Santiago within 30 minutes.
We lost the self-discipline, moderation and inventiveness that once helped the Greeks achieve great things, and we succumbed to political expediency, delusions of grandeur and a fatal sense of entitlement.
