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...committee said research institutions like Harvard are "guilty of an advertising practice they would condemn in the real world" because the universities attract students with big-name professors and then let them graduate "without seeing the world-famous professors or tasting genuine research...
Redmond said she has found that most of her activist peers are social studies concentrators. The sociology and women's studies departments also attract a disproportionate number of activists, according to the panel...
...similar fashion, a cappella groups arenot invited to the fair because they have anopportunity to attract pre-frosh by virtue of theweekend's A Cappella Jam," he said...
...freebies online is more than simple largesse, of course. The plan is to turn a profit real soon. Bohnett is, after all, an M.B.A.-packing capitalist. Like other entrepreneurs who have struggled with the How-Do-I-Make-Money-Online riddle, he figured that the first step was to attract a crowd. He started doing that in January 1995, when he got a friend to hang a camera out of the window of his Beverly Hills office and transmit to the Web live images of a bus-stop bench on Wilshire Boulevard. Oprah featured it and Bohnett...
...amount to interference in a tough market. "The small airlines want sympathy, so they accuse us of competing vigorously in the marketplace, which is and should be perfectly legal," argues Jon Austin, a spokesman for Northwest. And a smart strategy, perhaps. But now the big carriers have managed to attract the attention of both the Transportation and Justice departments. As Microsoft can attest, a smart business strategy isn't necessarily smart politics...