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Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 said it's difficult to determine what effect the guidelines, if they go through, would have on Harvard's admissions process...
Witness Robert Mondavi Corp.: for a decade it had increased revenues at an average of 15.5% a year, leading an industrywide wine boom. Profits kept pace until 1998, but then they dropped more than 20% from a year earlier, to $29 million. Partly that was bad luck, the delayed effect of late rains in 1996 that ruined harvests and kept the company from making enough of its best-selling Woodbridge Chardonnay to meet demand a year later. But Mondavi neglected to warn retailers of the shortage and failed to put them on allocation--tell them each store could get only...
...idea, anyway. But while it's quite plausible according to current neurological theory, that doesn't necessarily make it true. We know Einstein was a genius, and we now know that his brain was physically different from the average. But none of this proves a cause-and-effect relationship. "What you really need," says McLean's Benes, "is to look at the brains of a number of mathematical geniuses to see if the same abnormalities are present...
...script sessions, in agents' offices and at poolside, the talk is of how many shooting sprees and explosions are too many and how much psychotic knife slashing is more than enough. Scripts are quietly being buried or reworked, movie websites reviewed and ad campaigns rejiggered. "Littleton had an effect on everybody," says Michael Pressman, new executive producer of CBS's Chicago Hope. "People are reeling creatively...
...stage of major policy decision," she added. "We're at a stage of attending to an enormous variety of detail that's required to effect a complex transaction...