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...briefly at NYU's film school and reconnected years later at an alumni event. We were married six months after that, in 1993. We had sort of a whirlwind romance and planned our wedding quickly in a strange town where we knew no one. Several years later, when we were looking to get out of the work-for-hire world, a friend of ours brought up weddings. Lightning bolts went off in the room, and everyone thought, This is brilliant. Young people, the first to adopt the Internet, have a lot of money to spend in a short period...
...Allston campus, Behnisch faces the pressure of living up to the image of a university better known for brick and ivy than glass and limestone. According to the chief operating officer for the University’s Allston Development Group, Christopher M. Gordon, architecture is a top concern for alumni. “I can go on for hours about the engineering and the technical aspects, and all the questions are about architecture,” he said of alums who are concerned about a move away from the Georgian style that dominates the Cambridge campus. Behnisch said that...
...higher caps for employer contributions to pension and health funds. The WGA turned them down, and on the morning of Nov. 5 writers at NBC studios in New York walked out. The first WGA strike in nearly 20 years is underway in New York and Los Angeles, and Harvard alumni are playing an integral role on both sides of the picket line.The core issue of the WGA strike is the AMPTP’s attempt to apply the current formula for residuals—payments made to writers each time a show is rebroadcast or sold after its initial showing?...
...unbridled superiority became immediately apparent when comparing the wikipedia pages entitled “List of Harvard People” and “List of Yale People.” The Harvard list is organized into a tidily defined table with a substantial section devoted to alumni involved in literature. The Yale page lumps writers, actors, and other artists into the catch-all category of “History, Literature, Art, and Music,” an anorexic section feebly listing the few bright bulbs that have managed to emerge from New Haven. The Nobel Prize for literature?...
...prestigious firms like JP Morgan and McKinsey and Company now allow graduates to defer job offers for two years in order to teach with TFA. But few follow through with their business aspirations. “It’s a very small portion of our actual alumni who are in business, around four percent,” says Joshua Z. Biber, TFA’s Boston director for new site development. Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their two years...