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...provide water to the city of Lyon. It was such a hit on the Paris stock market that the company soon spun off its own bank, Société Générale. Competing bank Crédit Lyonnais parried in 1880 with the creation of Lyonnaise des Eaux, which is the core of Suez's water business today. Though the direct links to those banks no longer exist, both companies have been key players in the roiling waters of French business and government ever since...
...Content is king." It's a phrase uttered repeatedly by media executives making the case that the movies, music, TV shows, books and journalism their companies produce are the core of their business...
...into a learning experience—not a conduit to success, but a valuable endeavor in and of itself—is perhaps extreme, it is to be admired. Perhaps we mortals can approximate his keen appreciation and earnestness, in other, less punishing ways: the transformation of a routine Core class into a learning experience; of office hours into an engaging conversation; of the library into more than an espresso bar and a place to cram...
...time, or better said, the three longest games since 1996, or even better said, the three longest games since kids still played with pogs. If I was a lifetime devotee of the sport, that would be one thing, and this unlikely coincidence could be explained away as hard-core fandom. But, in fact, I hadn’t been to a women’s hockey game until I arrived at Harvard two years ago and to this point have only attended roughly 50 contests...
...their early stages, and with community opposition rallied against the project, the future is still uncertain.MUSEUM MAMBOThe Fogg Art Museum, on 32 Quincy Street, has not changed substantially in the last 80 years. Despite more modern additions such as Werner Otto Hall, home to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the core of the Fogg is much as it was when first built. The museum has substantial infrastructure issues problematic for its art—including a lack of modern climate control and buckling walls in the Busch-Reisinger—and has long needed renovations.In 1998, renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano...