Word: homers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Congress allocated federal work-study funds this year, Harvard's share--about $3 million, according to Marcy Homer, director of Student Employment--increased by about 10 percent. About 5 percent of the increase, the first in 13 years, was earmarked for public service...
...Homer told a group of students assembled for the open house that the funding jump means that Harvard can afford to pay a full work-study hourly wage to any student who wants to participate in one of the America Reads programs on campus...
...Then on to 1939's Of Mice and Men, wherein Meredith, opposite the immortal Lon Chaney Jr., fields a lot of questions about rabbits. Finish with the languorous, creepy Hollywood pic The Day of the Locust (1975), with Meredith, Karen Black and Donald Sutherland as a fellow actually named Homer Simpson. It earned Meredith his first Best Supporting Actor nomination (they would stiff him twice...
...other hand, animated films have an infinite life cycle. "Snow White has sold 28 million copies, and it's a 60-year-old production," Jobs points out. "People don't read Herodotus or Homer to their kids anymore, but everybody watches movies. These are our myths today. Disney puts those myths into our culture, and hopefully Pixar will too. At Pixar we're just getting started, and it's very magical. It's like the computer industry was in the early days...
...unequaled strategic genius. His $150 million has also won him several subtler victories. Saving the Mac maintains his $300 million share of the 20 million-strong Mac-user base while increasing Apple's reliance on Microsoft software to keep the public hooked on its computers. The deal, says Mike Homer, a Netscape executive vice president, "puts the whole application base in Microsoft's hands. And if they control that, they control the Macintosh...