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...architecture school. There he somehow managed to fail a basic course. In his early years he says he was more drawn to the company of the painters and sculptors leading the vibrant LA artistic scene than to his young architectural peers. Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel , even his psychiatrist, Milton Wexler, make appearances in what might be called supportive roles in the film, as do clients and other admirers, most of whom manage to stay shy of sycophancy. The film also offers a very handsomely shot portfolio of Gehry buildings, but spares us a lot of hard-hat sequences with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schickel on Movies | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...most, free markets unhindered by governmental interference—labor regulations, taxes, and the like—take precedent over old growth forests. Managers do not usually build cost-inefficient solar panels to minimize their company’s environmental impact. They adhere to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous saying that a company’s only “social obligation is to increase its profits.” To them, incantations of the collective good are just sweet-sounding claptrap, and morality is viewed as a matter of personal preference. You want...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: Libertarian Environmentalist? | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...others. Sure, most of them have read Ayn Rand’s novels—perhaps even briefly fell in love with Objectivism—but, like everyone else, they realized that they were being callous pricks and soon thereafter forgot about Howard Roark. Nevertheless, what is common from Milton Friedman to John Mackey is a fervent, but tempered belief in individual choice. Importantly, liberty does not have to come at the expense of society’s plunge into an anarchic abyss; few libertarians would defend the choice of an industry to discard toxic chemicals into a river...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: Libertarian Environmentalist? | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...Patrick attended Milton Academy on a scholarship, before being admitted to Harvard...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Proposes New Solutions for Mass. | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...rather lose my job for the sacrifice for others than not have a union,” he said. Repeated requests for comment yesterday afternoon to Rob Taylor, the Allied official overseeing the company’s employees at Harvard, were not returned. Milton G. Scope, a four-year employee who guards the Countway Library of Medicine, said “there’s a great deal of intimidation” at Allied. “We’re in the process of organizing,” he said. “Trust me, they?...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allied Security Guards Push for Unionization | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

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