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...implementation of this policy was likewise uneven. For example, while Cabot House administrator Susan Livingston e-mailed Cabot House residents on September 6th to inform them that they would no longer be receiving pillows from the College, in neighboring Pforzheimer House, some rooms received pillows while others did not. While there is good reason for some of the unevenness—a few house masters, such as those of Adams House, requested the pillows remain (and students in other houses can still receive pillows upon request), and the red phones remain in the Quad houses because of their spotty cell...
...Children under the age of seven or eight really do not have the ability to understand the persuasive intent of advertising and marketing," says Dr. Thomas Robinson, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University and lead author of the study, "so the justification for marketing, which is to inform a consumer, doesn't really hold for them, because they can't understand that advertising is biased...
...Dean's presidential campaign. The job was something of a contradiction in terms. Dean, who had left his Episcopal church over an argument concerning the placement of a bike path, often argued that campaigns should avoid subjects like "guns, God and gays" and boasted that "my religion doesn't inform my public policy." Vanderslice found herself working with advisers who wondered what she was doing there and a candidate who rarely mentioned religious groups except to attack them. "Those voters were a target," she recalled of Evangelicals, "not a target audience...
...policy will not affect these holdings, but, as with Sinopec and PetroChina, Harvard will inform third-party money manager’s of its new decisions regarding ONGC...
...storied 104-year history. W.C. Fownes, son of club founder H.C. Fownes, a Pittsburgh industrialist who designed the course to offer a steeper challenge to Steel City players, once roared, "A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost." A course superintendent once called W.C. Fownes to inform him that golf legend Sam Snead had hit a tee shot past a bunker during a practice round. The next day, Snead struck a shot to the same spot--and found himself in a sand trap that had been installed overnight...