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...point and add some interesting angles to the hackneyed production. Rather than starting out as full-fledged living clocks and feather-dusters, the castle characters reveal that they are slowly turning into houseware, which adds a nice touch of humanity to the painfully splashy musical. Also, through conversations and (ahem) read-aloud sessions, Belle's love for the Beast develops because they both feel isolated and rejected in their respective homes. This is a particularly refreshing change, since the "beauty" in the story is usually depicted as coming down from her pedestal to love the "beast" despite his ugliness, rather...
...Harvard students often go to Fresh Pond. I explained how they take the T to Alewife, wait for a green light and use the crosswalk over the Alewife Brook Parkway, walk across the bridge that spans the railroad tracks and then, with the movie theaters in sight, they, ahem, scamper down the hill...
...much and deserved surprise, heterodox Harvard students scored political victories last semester. Beth A. Stewart '00, a reported, ahem, conservative students run for the Undergraduate Council presidency often enough, but rarely do they win. And certainly not if they once worked for...Newt Gingrich...
These are not the first disclosures to hint at an industry campaign to dominate the, ahem, younger-adult market. But the 81 internal documents from R.J. Reynolds, released by Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California, are by far the most unflinching public view of a company determined to get those kids. In a 1975 memo, company official J.W. Hind urged R.J.R., maker of Camel, Winston and Salem, to "increase its share penetration among the 14-24 age group." One year later, a 10-year planning forecast prepared for the board of directors and stamped RJR SECRET noted that...
...Grove and Moore were a dream team. The problem was the business itself. It kept changing. Just as Intel's leaders decided the future was in, say, selling dynamic RAM (a kind of short-term computer memory), messages started trickling back that sales were tanking, customers were evaporating and, ahem, top management had better pick a new strategy. It was a miserable way to run a company: desperately leaping into lifeboats, always at the last possible moment. One night Grove dreamed he was being chased by a pack of wild dogs. "It was a pressure cooker," he says...