Word: deans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping to cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public, and it's backed by savvy Internet investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos...
...everyone has had a go at Marilyn Monroe. There have been more than 300 biographies, learned essays by Steinem and Kael, countless documentaries, drag queens, tattoos, Warhol silk screens and porcelain collector's dolls. Marilyn has gone from actress to icon to licensed brand name; only Elvis and James Dean have rivaled her in market share. At this point, she seems almost beyond comment, like Coca-Cola or Levi's. How did a woman who died a suicide at 36, after starring in only a handful of movies, become such an epic commodity...
...short, skinny, bespectacled 18-year-old kid from Hong Kong traveled to America and declared himself to be John Wayne, James Dean, Charles Atlas and the guy who kicked your butt in junior high. In an America where the Chinese were still stereotyped as meek house servants and railroad workers, Bruce Lee was all steely sinew, threatening stare and cocky, pointed finger--a Clark Kent who didn't need to change outfits. He was the redeemer, not only for the Chinese but for all the geeks and dorks and pimpled teenage masses that washed up at the theaters...
Student activism led to more communication andconfrontations with University Hall, led by Lewis,who began his term as dean of the College in thefall of 1995, the same time the class of '99walked onto campus...
...innovative dean who doesn't avoidissues, and that's different from hispredecessors," says longtime Harvard administratorand former dean of the College John B. Fox Jr.'59. "He's given a somewhat different flavor tothe College...