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...determined that we needed to think of a new plan for leasing rather than perpetuate a concept that didn't seem to be working," Levitan said...
...dell'arte. Puzo playfully admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...
When I was interviewing for summer jobs in consulting, the firms loved to talk about their Culture. Culture seems to be an essential concept, an atmosphere of work and play that is unique to that workplace and occupation. Often, when turned down for a job, the company noted that I was not a perfect match to their Culture. So when I didn't get a single job offer and instead fled to Washington to be an intern for the summer, I assumed I would be thankfully free from the elusive pursuit of Culture. I was wrong...
...cops in a police state find Pramoedya an embarrassment and a danger. A final irony in this rich lode is that for several years Pramoedya has suffered from writer's block in regard to his fiction. Presently he is working on an Indonesian encyclopedia. "Indonesia is still an abstract concept for me," he says wryly. An encyclopedia, he thinks, might help make this diffuse country of 17,000 islands and 365 languages and dialects a more graspable reality. For his readers, the Buru Quartet has already done that...
Wall Street investors too have a craving for concept. Last April Planet Hollywood's creators, Robert Earl and his principal partner, filmmaker Keith Barish, took the company to the markets via an initial public offering of its stock. With its high-dazzle celebrity partners generating headlines, and with a then dazzling IPO market (see story page 60) generating buyers, the price went into another orbit. Some 11 million shares were offered at $18 each, topped $26 (you and Arnold Schwarzenegger--co-owners!), and held firm in a shaky market. That values the company at almost $2.8 billion--91 times...