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Others elected include Arielle J. Cohen ’04, vice president for community building; Julia B. Appel ’04, vice president for community relations; Shoshana M. Lew ’05, vice president for education; and Michael Grunfeld ’04, vice president for communications...
Shoshana M. Lew ’05 says that while the staffers connected students with otherwise unreachable speakers during her work on the IOP’s civics committee, their presence also “limits the extent to which students, particularly those who are only becoming involved in the IOP, can get a foothold in the organization’s leadership structure...
...DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...
...Many have written of LEW WASSERMAN's power, but they don't really understand its source. It didn't derive from his powerful clients, his brain, or his pocketbook, but from the way he lived his life. Medieval knights lived by a Code of Honor. Lew lived the same...
...colleagues and I were expected to follow his example. Loyalty was very important to Lew: loyalty to clients in his early agent days, loyalty to those who were counting on us in later times. It was no accident that MCA executives frequently spent most or all of their careers with the company. It was like our family. It would take care of us. Honesty was essential to Lew. Our integrity was never to be questioned. And nobody ever wondered about our financial statements. He earned his power over and over again. Lew really wasn't the "last mogul...