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...seeking recognition as paid employees, GESO degrades the idea of a university as a community of scholars. As Yale's recent refusal of the $20 million Bass grant shows, unlike most of America the university is not simply in the business of making money. And graduate students are not in the business of making money either. While some may dream of a comfortable tenured position in their future, they should be commended for ignoring the financial lures of law and Wall Street in order to pursue academic knowledge...
...songs are both more whimsical and more interesting. Dumb Fun, a vertiginous number with sporadic bass-guitar spasms, was composed by stringing together semi-random passages from a notebook of ideas Hatfield had been keeping for about six months. "Had a heart by accident," goes one line of the song. Another track, the idiosyncratic Fleur de Lys, is sung entirely in French...
...irony is that many of Kagan's detractors on campus are also great advocates of Western Civ. Another is that by implying that multiculturalism, rather than clashing egos and tightfisted administrators, was interfering with Bass's gift, the Wall Street Journal editorial writers helped ensure the demise of a program that would have strengthened Yale's classical curriculum...
...DreamWorks had grown from $500 million to $900 million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some 6,000 titles...
Film may be the universal language, but business can be Babel. When the Koreans, through an interpreter, explained their goals, Spielberg got a twinge in his belly--and it wasn't the bass. "The word semiconductor must have been used about 20 times during that 2-1/2-hr. encounter," Spielberg recalls. "I thought to myself, 'How are they going to know anything about the film business when they're so obsessed with semiconductors?' It was another one of those evenings that turned out to be a complete waste of time...