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...course, the media has run wild with the story (as the media does with most stories that involve the word “Harvard”), giving the Movement Against Grade Inflation (lets call it MAGI) a six month life of its own, a life that doesn’t really exist due to its lack of supporters. Despite this pivotal fact, headlines spouting Harvard’s “severe problems” with grade inflation continue to surface well into the new year, giving further fuel to the Story that Refuses...
...Devotees like Sworder have made Thomas Kinkade the best-selling living artist in history. At least that's how his slick marketing machine bills him, along with the trademarked moniker, the Painter of Light. Kinkade is also the leading "lifestyle brand" of Media Arts Group, Inc. (MAGI), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With nearly $140 million in sales and profits of $14.2 million last year, it claims to be the largest art publisher in the world. The company's stable includes three other artists, but Kinkade alone generates more than 95% of MAGI's gross revenue...
...another slated to open in Birmingham in August. Forty to 50 outlets are to launch in the U.K. and Ireland within the next seven years. "Our objective is that in the next five years international development will represent about 50% of the company's total revenue," says Rick Barnett, MAGI's senior vice president of retail development...
...small-town community in favor of suburban culture, but has licensed his name to a new suburban development, the Village at Hidden Brook, in Vallejo, California, that is being constructed to conform to the vision presented in his works. He is also a savvy businessman. His title at MAGI is simply Artistic Director and Co-Founder, but his stake in the company is about 25%. His attempt earlier this year to buy back MAGI's publicly traded shares was rebuffed by the board of directors...
...administration's priorities, in the Age of Rudenstine, reflect this fixation with the world's bottom line. If Christ were born in Cambridge today, I suspect, Harvard would convince the Magi to donate their gold and frankincense and myrrh to the alumni giving fund instead...