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During a recent meeting between Howard Chao, the partner in charge of O'Melveny & Myers' Asia practice, and a Silicon Valley venture-capital tycoon shopping for a lawyer with expertise there, the conversation was less a sales pitch by Chao than a freewheeling exchange about corporate-finance trends and upcoming...
The critics that panned Diary didn’t seem to understand the film’s important social function or its cult appeal. Their efforts to critique the film according to the usual measures of genre, tone, and theme failed to capture essence of what made the movie so...
Mondovino succeeds in part by appealing to the snob in each of us—the part of our consciousness that cringes at the sight of a newly-constructed Wal-Mart or the phrase “Have it your way.”
Appealing to nostalgia for the days of the Old South, The Birth of a Nation was, and still is, used as KKK propaganda to recruit new members. The emotions evoked were so strong that Klan membership peaked in the ten years following the film’s cinematic release.
The interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the field makes Mullainathan’s behavioral economics courses appealing to students.