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...minutes before 10 a.m. Nearly 100 second-year students file into the amphitheater at the Harvard Business School. The desk tops are soon covered with notebooks, calculators, coffee cups, half-pint cartons of orange juice. This morning's object of study is Waffle House, Inc., a chain of 425 fast-food restaurants, roughly half of them franchised, that began in Georgia and spread across much of the Southeast. Like most examples in Harvard's celebrated case-study method, Waffle House does not simply present some problem to be solved. Instead, the goal here is to assess the critical...
When his birthday rolls around, Theodor Seuss Geisel usually hides out in Las Vegas to avoid being "smothered with love." Rather Grinch-like behavior for the author adored by children the world over as Dr. Seuss, but better than facing truckloads of treacly fan mail and thousands of pint-size pilgrims on his doorstep. Last week, however, the good "doctor" turned 77 at home in La Jolla, Calif., braving an avalanche of affection that was greater than ever. The reason: Governors of 15 states had declared March 2 Dr. Seuss Day. Indiana's Robert Orr went...
...harried desk clerk (Peter Howard) is making wake-up calls and morosely entertaining the predictable series of complaints about noise, lack of hot water and general decay. (It sounds more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm...
Mannix notes that the Crimson must take the lead early. "Tonight," he said following the game at Princeton, "the most frustrating thing was getting behind like that. A six pint lead for Princeton is like 15 points for anyone else." Harris added, "if they get ahead, they spread you out and pick you apart...
...trial was conducted according to the best traditions of our inherited judicial system," said Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. A white patron of a Salisbury pub had another view. "Happy New Year, everybody," he roared, pint in hand. "It's the last one you'll ever have in this place...