Word: fiascoes
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...year after the announcement and public relations fiasco, Rowe left and Paul S. Grogan—a hired gun with political experience with Boston city government—came in to patch up Harvard’s relationship with the city...
...first-ever presidential election, one that ends in an impasse. Thirty-six days later, after hearing more about aging Florida voters, chads and the intricacies of judicial voting processes than should ever be desired, Gore finally concedes the election to Bush, a graduate of the Harvard Business School. The fiasco over, the nation breathes a sigh of relief...
...bigger question of who dictates what DVR owners watch. One in five never watch commercials, which scares television executives who depend on advertising revenue. A group of media majors like AOL Time Warner have even sued to stop DVRS from automatically skipping commercials. But as the Dossa and Joe fiasco shows, interfering with viewing habits is likely to backfire. After all, the remote's off button is still easy to find. THE BOURSE No tears in this beer It's Miller time for South African Breweries, which will buy the U.S. beer giant for $5.6 billion. The deal creates...
Minority Report (June 21): As if to clean up the fiasco that was A.I., Steven Spielberg’s latest jaunt into sci-fi goes all-out, Indiana Jones-style. Based on the short story by science fiction guru Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is set in 2054 Washington, D.C., where a psychic method called Pre-Crime witnesses, verifies, arrests and convicts murderers before they even commit their crime. But when the head of the Pre-Crime division (Cruise) is accused of the murder of a man he hasn’t even met yet, he finds himself being stalked...
Following the resignation of Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 from the Harvard Corporation amid controversy over his role as chair of the Enron finance committee, the Corporation appointed another businessperson tainted by the Enron fiasco...