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Another prize winner, Cliff W. Chiang '96, took advantage of his joint concentration in English and Visual and Environmental Studies to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost...
...some respects Clinton's message is a little late. Over the past two decades, a number of activist groups, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Council on Economic Priorities, and consumers themselves have persuaded corporations to behave as if they lived in the community. Says Milton Moskowitz, a longtime tracker of corporate behavior and co-author of 100 Best Places to Work in America: "There are a lot more 'good' companies. Originally, way back, corporate responsibility had to do with an external commitment to the community and philanthropic contributions. Now it's even broader." Says Craig...
...everyone agrees. There is still a basic free-market argument that business has no business in anything but making money--which of itself will provide plenty of social benefits. One who has made that point for decades is the Nobel prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. Says he: "It was a very fashionable topic some 20 years ago, and then it sort of died down; all of a sudden it has become very fashionable again. I think it is all rhetoric...
...Milton Academy graduate said he was not influenced by his family's more than 170-year presence at the University and that the decision to come to Harvard was his own. For Weld, his Harvard legacy "was a big negative. It's a pain in the ass to have a dorm the same name...
...then there was the suddenly famous cigar humidor given to J.F.K. in 1961 by comedian Milton Berle. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the magazine Cigar Aficionado, set his sights on it because he worked as a high school volunteer during Kennedy's 1960 campaign for the presidency and, well, because he's the publisher of Cigar Aficionado. "I didn't think about what it would cost me," he says. "I only thought that I wanted it very badly." He expected to "pay a lot," he says, "but to me a lot was under $100,000." He wound up shelling...