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...SELL FOR LESS, ALWAYS. Walton did not invent discount retailing, just as Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. But just as Ford and his cars revolutionized America and its industrial model, Walton's extraordinary pursuit of discounting revolutionized the country and its service economy. Walton didn't merely alter the way much of America shopped; he changed the philosophy of much of American business, instigating the shift of power from manufacturer to consumer that has become prevalent in industry after industry...
Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...
...Alter said Whitaker's work ethic will help him with his new position...
...Alter said he remembers Whitaker as a student who was as devoted to The Crimson as to his academics...
...thought that the class was too hard for me to take, and Mark was teaching it," Alter said...