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...Springsteen. Critics in other groups may scratch their heads at the inclusion of this category, and especially of this year's honorees. The HFPA just sees it as another way to put famous fannies. The real critics groups have the freedom to honor their preferred films, whether hits or cult items; but the Globers have a sterner agenda. What matters to them is not what movies win but who's in the audience, and the roll call of nominations is their list for a fabulous party...
...Richard dramatically abandoned both business and family to join a religious cult in Bolivia, leaving Betty behind with six kids and a floundering business. For the next 38 years, Betty carefully ran the company, finally selling it off when she reached 80. She was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame...
...intellectual power has at some point intimidated everyone in this room,” said M. Anne Sa’adah ’76, a professor at Dartmouth College. Other former students described Hoffmann as “part of a cult of personality” of Harvard professors and an “absolutely legendary lecturer.” Hundreds of undergraduates regularly flocked to his popular courses on the origins of war and French history, despite the universal concensus that he assigned a voluminous amount of reading. Princeton professor Gary J. Bass ’92 recalls...
...Indeed, Who Moved My Cheese? has become the best-selling business book ever, with more than 22 million copies sold worldwide in 37 languages. That's bigger than Good to Great and In Search of Excellence, case-study-laden books that examine corporate success in detail. There is a cult of Cheese, populated by readers (some of them CEOs) who extol the virtues of the book and claim that it has changed their workplace and even their personal life. "I love that book!" says Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a strategy consultant...
...Sunai strongly criticized PAD leaders for not demanding that parents with children leave the airports, as a police move against the protesters was being prepared. "They are getting like Jim Jones," Sunai said, referring to the American religious cult leader who led more than 900 of his followers in a mass suicide in Guyana...