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...wants the movie to have a long tail. "Our biggest challenge is awareness. Nobody cares about clefts," he says. "Winning the Oscar was luck, but now that we've won it, it's like a Trojan horse. We're going to use the panache to get into 10 million homes." (Read about medical methods of closing cleft lip and palate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! Want a Free DVD of an Oscar-Winning Film? | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...Computer Associates (whose controversial founder Charles Wang is also a co-founder of Smile Train) to give away copies of its personal-finance software, Simply Money, to try to establish a bulkhead against market leader Intuit's Quicken. The "Free Money" campaign was so successful - garnering something like a million calls in two weeks - that it strained MCI's phone banks, says Mullaney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! Want a Free DVD of an Oscar-Winning Film? | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...people who order the DVD decide to become donors, it will have a vastly better success rate than most direct-mail programs. "Most charities would be horrified by all of this," he admits. "If you went to most boards and said you wanted to spend a quarter of a million dollars on a documentary that doesn't even mention the name of the charity, they'd be appalled. But this was the best $250,00 any charity ever spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! Want a Free DVD of an Oscar-Winning Film? | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

During the last meeting of the academic year, the Council narrowly voted 15-13 to begin a 16-month effort to purchase the multi-million dollar 45 Mt. Auburn St. property for use as a student community center...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Capital Campaign Falls Flat, Cuts UC Ties | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

Harvard researchers have received over $18 million in grant awards from federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) as of the beginning of September. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stimulus Grants Boost Research | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

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