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...only seven years after graduation, she says, that "the concept of being a medical school student for four years and being an intern for four years--the process as well as the goal--looked attractive." As a result, she spent two years at the University of Massachusetts at Boston fulfilling all of her pre-med requirements, except for organic chemistry, which she completed at Harvard Summer School...
...concept, while not completely original, might have allowed for a much more interesting film had it been executed differently. Shot in the mockumentary style of Rob Reiner's classic Spinal Tap, the movie follows Hard Core Logo, a popular 80s punk band, as it travels through Canada during its 1995 reunion tour. Of course, being a mockumentary, neither the present nor the past is real; the history we are given of the band, the news footage detailing the start of their reunion tour and the "documentary" made about the band on this tour are all fictitious...
...chronological format reinforces elevated concepts and an outdated way of looking at art as developing toward idealistic perfection," says Mark DeLancy, a teaching fellow for the course. "Art is not a Darwinian concept...
...brands. Witnessing his father's bankruptcy as a small child prompted Matsushita to develop new values of how an enterprise ought to be run. Like Sam Walton, he paid attention to the consumer and sought ways to increase demand and reduce prices. He forced the competition to embrace this concept, making the market grow while creating more profit. He also showed that human well-being and making money are not inconsistent. In downturns he found other jobs for redundant workers and preserved their dignity. This is the Japanese way, and he used it to build one of the largest corporations...
With consumer spending driving the economy's bus, it made sense for Time Inc. to mint MONEY magazine in 1972--but not without furious internal debate. Some higher-ups despised the title, if not the whole concept, as hawking greed. Circulation was a hard slog at first, and MONEY came within an inch of being shut down at least twice in its difficult early years. But by the late '70s, a focus on how-people-like-us-can-succeed lifted readership--and profits...