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...around broadcast strictures, and in a way so does Abrams. Networks have long been afraid that audiences would lose interest in talky, character-driven shows about relationships. So Abrams lets viewers believe they're getting something else. Alias was sold as--and truthfully is--the story of a grad student who becomes a spy. But what really grabbed Abrams was that Sydney Bristow (Garner) has to work with her father Jack (Victor Garber), a chilly pragmatist with whom she has a rocky history. Garner recalls Abrams' pitch: "There would be some action, but it was really a family story...
...Harvard grad brings high tech to his family's 100-year-old farm...
...idea of how different things are at the New York Stock Exchange these days, peek inside the office of CEO John Thain, the M.I.T. grad and former president of Goldman Sachs who had to be talked into taking the job after former CEO and chairman Richard Grasso's bitter departure amid an excessive-pay flap and charges of board cronyism. Grasso, a passionate stock-exchange lifer, famously littered his office with several hundred treasured mementos from the companies whose shares are traded at the exchange. The more clinical Thain, 49, displays mainly his own collection of modern...
...balancing a career in the music industry with a more conventional occupation, Eggers replied that “almost every musician has a day job of some kind…for example, I have a day job that’s really flexible and I’m a grad student, but really everybody does something along those lines.” Regardless of their burgeoning musical career, the bills still have to be paid...
...very real potential of being a moderate waste of money. Furthermore, anyone who thinks this position will single-handedly solve the problem of social life at Harvard by itself is just dead wrong. That will require far more than offering a fellowship to a recent grad, but we are glad to know that the goal is on administrators’ minds. If only we could say it’s just the thought that counts...