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Even without knowing its significance, a visitor would be mesmerized by the fountain on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. Water flows from the top of 75 strands of steel shaped and forged to look like a gigantic flower. On this particular autumn Saturday morning, the steady trickle is the only sound on a campus that will soon shake with cheers...
...Archive gets its funding and he explains that the University pays for overhead costs and the salary of the tiny staff while course budgets take care of week-night films. But when I press him, he concedes that this is the extent of Harvard's support. There is no fountain of funds set aside to finance his weekend film series; he is more or less bound to take in enough in receipts over the course of the week to pay for his Friday and Saturday programs...
...because Gardner had her way with the Continent in much the same way that thieves would one day have their way with her collection. With this, she built a temple of finery, personally designing a 15th century Venetian-style palace featuring a glass-ceilinged center court with garden and fountain and three floors of art. The Gardner Museum opened in 1903, Gardner died in 1924, and her will made her wishes crystal clear: nothing was ever to be replaced, moved or added...
...Roger Enrico, as well as a new game plan. Enrico recently spun off Pepsi's capital-consuming restaurant division to focus on businesses that add more value: Frito-Lay snack foods and Pepsi. Sound familiar? Pepsi can now open another front in the cola wars--probably in the fountain business, where it has been weak. "Pepsi has not been that strong of a competitor [in this segment]. Coke has pretty much had a free run, and that's about to change," says Gary Hemphill, vice president of Beverage Marketing Corp., a beverage-consulting firm...
...made it don't need to be part of a slobbering, self-pitying mob to validate ourselves. Come on, men, you should recognize the one consistent theme of the Promise Keepers and other evangelistic movements: give your time and resources. It's the money, man. Wake up! RICHARD STEPHENS Fountain Hills, Ariz...