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...weeks ago, Vaux sent an e-mail to a few dozen linguistics concentrators and graduate students outlining the details of his case for tenure, encouraging them to meet and “brainstorm about possible courses of action,” and suggesting that it would be “helpful” for them to meet with Knowles and University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Robert Cochran knows a great idea when he hears one. So when his production partner Joel Surnow called him with a brainstorm--"a show, 24 episodes, the whole season takes place in one day, each episode is an hour of real time"--Cochran responded as many a seasoned producer might have. "I said, 'That's brilliant. But it's impossible,'" he recalls. "'I don't want to think about it. Don't ever say that to me again...
This lipstick-slick spy thriller is the dramatic equivalent of a bumblebee--a preposterous bit of engineering that by every law of nature should never get off the ground, yet it flies magnificently. Creator J.J. Abrams (Felicity) had a brainstorm: What if Felicity's college-girl heroine, or someone like her, were recruited by the CIA to live a globe-hopping, karate-chopping double life? The result is an improbable, heart-pounding and-tugging mix of fantastical '60s spy chic and emotionally realistic drama that is less reminiscent of today's troubles than you might think. Grad student Sydney Bristow...
...February, with Sulzer Medica facing possible bankruptcy, one of its U.S. executives rang his buddy Joe Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases...
...night at Pizzeria Uno’s last spring, the three writers began to work with Meyers, a two-time Pudding cast member, to overhaul the old script and brainstorm rewrites for the show...