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...DM: No, it wasn’t it all. Working with actors was daunting. Guaranteeing that we could actually make the film was daunting. It was only really after I got into it that I understood the Henson name meant what it does. It’s universally loved. As many people hate Disney movies and the name as love them, but Henson is universally beloved. I didn’t know that at the time and it’s probably good that I didn?...
Shannon B. Maene ’07 creates an alternate universe for the middle-school students through a role-playing game known as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Hired by the after-school program, Maene acts as the game’s “Dungeon Master” (DM) once a week for about 12 kids...
Maene takes his role very seriously, spending more time each week planning the game than actually playing it. As the DM, he is responsible for setting up the imagined universe. He dictates the players’ situations, the powers of their characters, and the enemies they meet. The game transpires entirely through spoken conversation—no computers necessary—and every round is unique...
...their loyalty. "I would have liked to stand and care for our company and your future," Kirch wrote. "But the leadership was taken out of my hands." Germany's largest bankruptcy since World War II marked an ignominious end for Kirch, who began his career in 1956 by borrowing DM 25,000 from his wife's family to buy the rights to Federico Fellini's La Strada. By the end, Kirch had amassed a film library of 15,000 titles, the largest outside Hollywood. He also owned the broadcast rights to World Cup soccer and a majority of the company...
...Holocaust victims as weaklings who had gone "like sheep to the slaughter" - unlike the strong "new Jew" Israel's founders hoped to create. Holocaust survivors were treated with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived in the Jewish state after the deal was done. But Israel soon found there were more disabled survivors than anticipated, and the 1953 grant...