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...what Housing Day is about. It’s about the swag. Here’s how to get it all: 1) Go naked. Your winter pastiness should be enough to have people literally throwing shirts at you. 2) Hit up the blocking day Stein Club circuit. Extra perk: free beer. 3) Start your own non-profit claiming to bring Harvard House t-shirts to third-world countries. 4) Surreptitiously sneak under the table and blow the shirt distributors. 5) Go into I-Banking. This delightfully vague Harvard classic seems to be a solution for everything. The more successful...
...favorite places in the entire world." Then again, not many other countries would see so many people willing to pay so much for a brush with an artist now better known for his legal troubles than for his music. But Japan has always been a lucrative circuit for musicians and bands otherwise confined to the "Where Are They Now?" genre of music TV programming. (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...never interested in running anything but Tom Peters. He says he got talked into lending his name to some smart people he liked so that they could do consulting and leadership training. Meanwhile, he was writing, catching successive waves of the business zeitgeist and playing the lecture circuit. "I have worked at building a brand but not through training and consulting," Peters says. "I'm an ideas person." If Bluepoint says they're doing better without him, he says with a chuckle, "Good for them. I love those guys...
What keeps Ferrell on the mainstream side of the Andy Kaufman line is that the audience is rarely the butt of the joke. Even in Talladega Nights--in which he plays a moronic, Southern-accented titan of the NASCAR circuit--the joke isn't that people follow racing or idolize a doofus but that Ricky Bobby is oblivious to everything around him. "It's easy to take a shot at people, set yourself aside from it and say, Hey, look how stupid everybody is," says Will Arnett, the former Arrested Development star who plays Poehler's brother and evil skating...
Gerber's scheme, a former insider at the department tells TIME, "was to short-circuit the money before it reached the university" and thus have his department directly receive payments. To bypass the university's accounting service, Gerber had one of his secretaries rent an outside post-office box under the name "Tulane Pathology Group." Bonnie Jones Jackson, who was in charge of billing for the department, said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur...