Word: attractions
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Pony Ma may be one of China's most eligible bachelors. Only 33, the tech entrepreneur has a $190 million fortune. But Ma is embarrassed by the text messages he has received from lovelorn Chinese girls. "I don't want to attract too much attention," he says. That's hard to avoid these days. Ma is the founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings, which operates China's largest instant-messaging service, with 355 million users. In June, Tencent made an IPO in Hong Kong. While many recent China issues have flopped, Tencent shares are up 58%. Ma quit...
...hits the midway point in its 124th year, it has stepped up its efforts to attract new members to Symphony Hall. By the end of this season, the BSO will have performed 126 different concerts, debuted a new music director and offered multiple events to reach out to the public—all in hopes of recruiting a new audience...
Other law schools vied for Goldsmith’s highly-prized services. “It was a great coup that Harvard Law School was able to attract him to our faculty,” said Story Professor of Law Daniel J. Meltzer ’72. “Jack Goldsmith is an extraordinarily distinguished and influential scholar...
...slightest compromise in the quality of the hires, and, indeed, it plans to do so. The hiring of younger faculty, scholars whose most productive days still lie ahead of them, can only add to the vivacity and brilliance of academic life. We appreciate that Harvard can and does attract the eminences grises of various fields, but we also wish that FAS would nab the enterprising youngsters who are, with flair and vigor, forging completely new fields. The expansion of the Faculty gives Harvard the chance to have it both ways, attracting both the superstars and the rising stars into...
...time, Loker’s one success was its late-night coffee house. It briefly hosted numerous performance events—a tradition recently revived—but because so few students besides first-years regularly even think to frequent Loker, these performances do not attract much attention. In an editorial in March 1996, the Crimson Staff wrote, “We only hope the performances become more frequent as time goes by, in order to make Loker’s appeal even greater. Then we can really call it a student center.” Sadly, the opposite happened...