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...supreme Christian sacrifice with clear echoes of his own turmoil, noting that the "tide of public opinion turned" against Jesus when he was still young. "They said he was an agitator," said King. "He practiced civil disobedience. He broke injunctions." Jesus was betrayed by friends, cursed, killed and buried penniless in a borrowed tomb--but now after 19 centuries "stands as the most influential figure that ever entered human history." For all the worldly gloss about a "lord of lords," King found nothing royal about Jesus: "He just went around serving...
...campus, the HCC is prone to certain mistakes that can be prevented through greater transparency. Delegation and centralization can be useful tools for planning certain initiatives, but the result in this case was that the UC, responsible both financially and in terms of organizational legitimacy, was left powerless and penniless. When these channels of communication break down or don’t exist in the first place, those responsible for handling oversights are left no ability to fulfill that responsibility. In all, the process left a sour taste in the mouths of everyone involved, but if it takes a failure...
...play was written by Kaling and Withers in the penniless years following their graduation from Dartmouth. Their overly active participation in the first incarnation of the play was no accident...
Even people who don't know much about art can tell you something about Amedeo Modigliani, the dissolute wild man of Montparnasse, wolfishly handsome, penniless, tubercular, drinking his way toward an early grave while sweeping up his superabundance of lovers, the last of them Jeanne Hebuterne, the art-school student who was carrying his child when he died and who would take her own life the next day. It's no surprise that there's a movie of his life on the way, starring Andy Garcia. The surprise is that it took so long...
That kind of attitude should have sent Page and Brin directly to the Home for Penniless Geniuses, but instead they have managed to build one of the strongest brands on the Internet--this despite the fact that when they started, they knew nothing about marketing. "That was true," says Page, laughing delightedly. "I guess we were really lucky, you know?" Whatever they did, it worked better than their rivals' approach. Remember how hard Yahoo tried to turn its brand name into an everyday word--those TV ads with the guy with the big Afro asking "Do you Yahoo...