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Anyone who has taken the survey for the Allston Planning Committee knows that Harvard is considering a student center in Allston (read: Siberia). How can Harvard not find the funds to make the more modest, more immediate and more local step of extending library hours...
...added, “I knew that it was impossible to do everything we had been asked to do in a year. Yale did a much more modest review...and it took them two or three years...
...Although Rahman's music has made him rich and famous, he remains something of a Sufi ascetic. He wears handloom shirts and jeans (though he admits to owning "suits and things" for special occasions), and drives a modest Toyota Qualis because "I don't need anything else." Gesturing at his studio, stuffed with the latest mixers and synthesizers, he says: "This is my BMW." He shares his house in Madras with his wife, his three children and his mother, who still handles his finances; Rahman asks her for money whenever he is short. "I like to be a musafir [vagrant...
...Scott Jr., 55, that means being a combination talk-show host and taskmaster. Business meetings take place in an auditorium where praise and criticism are meted out with wit and a steely determination to get things right. Like his predecessor, David Glass, Scott is a modest man with a ready supply of pungent remarks. He has been on the receiving end too, as Wal-Mart's critics harp about its low-wage jobs and sprawling stores. Scott has no apologies in stock for most of them. When the company does dumb things, it deserves the knocks, he says. But with...
...fresh out of management school in France. He became CEO in 1984 and chairman in 1988. Once in charge, he set about globalizing beauty. He is one of the few non-French to thrive in what remains an insular corporate culture. Along the way, he has transformed a once modest French firm into the world's largest cosmetics company, whose products sit on shelves from Melbourne to Moscow. But he has proved most adept at staying one step ahead of his customer. His key to being a successful business leader? "The ability to dream rather than simply plan." --By Jennie...