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John and Shelly Bain already have a pretty good idea of what that's like. Almost every night after dinner, instead of clicking on their TV set and waiting to be entertained, they sit down at their computers and entertain themselves. Dialing a local access number from their San Francisco living room, they enter the virtual amusement park of the ImagiNation Network, a combination Las Vegas, Nintendo and Sunday-afternoon social club, where they can compete against fellow computer users in everything from bridge and blackjack to medieval role-playing fantasies...
...before World War I), is a splendid vehicle for the winsome tricks of a veteran cast. Teresa Wright, whose 1942 Oscar for Mrs. Miniver makes Scott's 1970 award for Patton seem recent, flutters and flusters as the grandmother. Bette Henritze whinnies and hectors as an interfering aunt. Conrad Bain wheedles and soothes as the family doctor. In Scott's wiliest staging, he, Bain, and George DiCenzo test whether death has been suspended by circling around a poisoned housefly like slow- motion Marx Brothers. No one gets more laughs than Nathan Lane as Mr. Brink, slowly igniting as his timetable...
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...fact, students are sometimes assigned cases that they have already studied in their past employment training. In November 1987, a case appeared on the marketing midterm exam which 22 students had previously encountered at their Bain & Co. orientation. Before selecting the case, the professor failed to make a routine check on whether Harvard had already sold copies of the case to the Boston-based firm...
...Klepper, who currently works at Bain & Co., a management consulting firm in Boston, said that though Spruance and others "had the right attitude, they weren't supporting that attitude 100 percent...