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...million fans worldwide now based in Asia, the investment by AIG - keen to build their business in the region - made good business sense. When quizzed by a shareholder why he was pouring so much into the U.K., a modest part of AIG's empire, the insurer's then-CEO Martin Sullivan explained: "I am not buying the U.K. I am buying Asia...
...gift certificates to free round-trip flights with Jet Blue. Dining halls were closed for dinner Friday night, and Harvard University Dining Services dished out corn dogs, pretzels, and candy apples. “It’s a fun menu for a fun night,” said Martin T. Breslin, HUDS’ director for culinary operations. Students also flocked to carts dispensing fried dough and cotton candy, but many lamented the dreary weather and closed dining halls. “Rain is a little disappointing—my food is wet,” Andrea L. Daniel...
...Since the early '70s the two have dominated dramatic acting in films; when Brando abdicated, they seized the crown. Just the pictures De Niro made with Martin Scorsese would constitute a dream career for any almost other performer: Mean Streets in 1973, then Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas. Same with Pacino's "S" movies: Serpico and Scarecrow in '73, followed by Scarface, Sea of Love, Scent of a Woman. De Niro and Pacino played father and son in The Godfather Part II but never shared a scene. In the 1995 Heat they spent nearly three hours in the same movie...
...during the writing of his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [Sept. 8]. He said, "It scared the hell out of me." It seems Wolfe has inadvertently verified his assertion that the drug culture "inevitably leads to a total lack of intellect." Or maybe he just forgot. Chase Martin, COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS...
Government professor Lisa L. Martin, who served as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s first diversity dean and chair of the Standing Committee on Women, has left Harvard for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, criticizing Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith’s commitment to hiring minority and female professors on her way out.As a leader of female and minority recruitment, Martin compiled and released two reports on hiring. Her first report raised alarm when it found that the female tenure rate in 2005-2006 had fallen to 21 percent—half...