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LaFlamme points to one crucial difference between the two presidents: Summers’ cult of personality among Harvard undergraduates can be traced back in part to his high-profile status...
...CULT OF PERSONALITY
...experience over the years has been that the nonprofit world occasionally takes on things from the for-profit world, and sometimes takes on very bad things,” he says. “I think there is a certain cult of personality in the cultural field that is not unlike some of the more visible CEOs of the corporate world. And I think that’s wrong. I think the best of the cultural leaders, the people who place their institutions before themselves, they’re not self-aggrandizing...
With Everybody Loves Raymond Raymond sleeping the sweet sleep of syndication, and many untested successors in line for the fall, the networks wonder: Can anyone save the TV comedy? Here's good news: somebody already has-saved it on DVD, anyway. Whether skit or serial, classic or cult, hour-long or animated, this diverse batch of comedies proves there's more than one way to get a laugh...
Perhaps it's because successwas once so elusive that Lisa Scottoline wears it so conspicuously. There are the leopard-print Manolo Blahnik mules, the Blue Cult jeans and Ralph Lauren sweater, the gold Cartier bracelet and the white S500 Mercedes. Her home--a stylishly refurbished Pennsylvania farmhouse on 43 acres--is a grand monument to a blockbuster career that the author has painstakingly built from the ground up. Sometimes called the female John Grisham, Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) is a star among the burgeoning ranks of lawyers turned best-selling novelists. Devil's Corner (HarperCollins; 393 pages...