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...give us direction, get the hell out of our way." The most troubling aspect for homeowners: the threatened use of eminent domain to clear the most heavily damaged areas for developers. "I'm going to fight--whatever it takes," warned Harvey Bender of the Ninth Ward. "It's going to be baby Iraq for Joe Canizaro...
...instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender ’27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid from 1952 to 1960, described his ideal Harvard student as “a good, healthy extrovert...
...look of shock is genuine. Without telling him, Mandoki dressed the actor’s older brother in fatigues and put him in the scene as Chava’s target. Expecting to see an extra, Carlos instead found his brother in his sights.According to producer Lawrence Bender, it took a heated argument with Mandoki to get Torres to discuss his reluctance to pick up a gun.Bender says, “Oscar said [to me], ‘I’ve felt ashamed all my life about it.’ Because these people killed his friends. He?...
...confidence and growing resources among these firms," says Joe Sigelman, co-CEO of OfficeTiger, which will reach $100 million in sales this year and may go public in 2006. Strong, small firms will swallow others to solidify their positions against Indian outsourcing giants like Wipro and Infosys, says Peter Bender-Samuel, CEO of Everest Group, a research firm. U.S. players like Accenture and IBM Global Services, meanwhile, have a new kind of competitor to worry about, Bender-Samuel says. "It makes life difficult for them." --By Jyoti Thottam
Whimsical and yet elegantly stark, Bender's narratives resonate like fables. A man encounters a colony of pocket-size people living alongside humans. A woman harvests children from a crop of potatoes. A boy born with keys on his hands instead of fingers spends his life looking for things (doors, security boxes, women) to unlock. Bender ensnares you with an enticing opening line--"The pumpkinhead couple got married"--and confidently leads you into her phantasmagoric realm from there. Thankfully she stops short of fairy-tale morals; in their place we're given sublime studies on sorrow, grief, kindness and love...