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...cast to the wind. The past decade or so has been a time of virtuoso architects, not just Libeskind, Hadid and Isozaki but also Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and many others, all of them working in very different styles but with the common impulse to knock apart the familiar glass-and-steel box and put it back together in unheard of ways...
What's going on here? Many self-described socially responsible funds tailor their investment criteria narrowly, screening companies solely on the basis of, say, promotion of unionized labor or links to abortion. Other funds just knock the worst offenders out of contention and still buy companies that violate stated principles--as long as other companies in the same industry do worse. But even socially responsible funds that weed out a broader swath of companies and corporate practices may wind up not meshing with investors' convictions when it comes down to the gritty details...
...adventures of the Baudelaire children were originally conceived in print. Lemony Snicket’s tales were the first to knock the popular Harry Potter series off the New York Times children’s best-seller list. Each of the ten installments in the series has made it onto that best-seller list, and the eleventh, most recent book was released in September 2004. The film version of Lemony Snicket is based upon the first three books: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window...
...thanks largely to the unending energy of one Mollie H. Chen ’05, I ended up taking on extra duties for them. Mollie, the magazine’s chair, tackles each week’s production night like a mountain lion leaping out of the woods to knock a bicycle rider to the ground. But not a lion that goes for the jugular—a lion that covers the rider’s mouth and tears open his backpack to look for granola bars...
...KNOCK, KNOCK...