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...things I always romanticized as acts of desperation, and it seemed like everyone around me was pretty damn smart already without cheating,” Lin says. “In high school, someone’s always walking around telling you to cover up your test with your arm, but here the testing scene is pretty laid-back...
...watched him up close: at Wisconsin factory gates at 5 a.m., in the New Hampshire snow, tramping through the hamlets of West Virginia. His days ran 20 hours. I felt more debilitated than he looked. True, J.F.K. didn't indulge in displays of physical prowess (no push-ups or arm wrestling). He just kept going, his mind always in overdrive. That was his true, as he would say it, "vigah...
...film and TV credits and 13 Academy Award nominations. (He won an Oscar for adapting 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie.) "Composers, like actors and directors, get typed," observes director John Landis. "But not if you're as versatile as Elmer. When he did The Man with the Golden Arm in 1955, he was Mr. Jazz. Then he did The Great Escape in 1963 and became Mr. Action Adventure." Landis enabled Bernstein to become Mr. Comedy, drafting him for 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House--the first of a string of comedy scores that included Airplane! and Ghostbusters. "The nature...
...steamy day last July, IBM had just announced a deal to buy the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) for $3.5 billion, and Virginia Rometty, known to friends and customers alike as Ginni, had been tapped to head the new division. As Rometty, 45, was shuttled around New York City from one TV studio to another for interviews about the big news, the Chicago native insisted on taking time to call a few of her major customers to assure them that she would stay involved in their accounts during the transition...
...moderating restraints, would be as bad as a win, for which these same hard-liners would take the credit. But for the country, the consequences of an upset could be little short of disastrous. With obvious mischief, Pravin Togadia, the firebrand international head of the s's religious arm, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, or VHP), warns that what little control the BJP, or even he, exercises over the Hindu mob would evaporate if Modi were to lose on Dec. 12. "It will mean people are no longer prepared to defend themselves against Islam democratically," he states...