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Spielberg may also have chafed as an executive and poster child for investors in the long launch of DreamWorks, which is moseying toward its first feature release more than two years after attracting $2 billion in start-up capital. "You can tell he was depressed over the business stuff he's got into," says a colleague. "He always says, pleadingly, 'I'm only a film director!' But of course he's much more: studio owner, pop icon, a father, a mentor, a major mogul in spite of himself...
...students looking for hiatus from studying to get a head-start on packing up for summer, The Crimson has found several Cambridge area businesses that rent storage space and will gladly keep your poster of Jackie Chan or your illegal fishtank (emptied of course) during the hot summer months...
Seven billion, actually. And the mercurial software baron--who owes his success to a database-management program most Americans have never heard of--has taken full advantage of the fortune. For starters, Ellison could be a poster boy for Billionaire Chic. He drives expensive cars, loves beautiful women and jets off to exotic locations to sail his yacht. In Silicon Valley, where every day is casual Friday, the chairman of Oracle, based in San Mateo, Calif., dresses like the Prince of Wales. He shows up at industry functions in double-breasted suits, French cuffs and knuckle-size cuff links...
This week (April 21-26), the Society of Arab Students has launched its first annual Arab Awareness Week, which seeks to introduce the Harvard community to a side of the Arab World that is rarely exposed. Perhaps this week's poster exhibitions, distribution of information sheets and dance and cooking work-shops will show that there is more common ground between Arabs and Americans than many suspect. It is high time to build mutual respect through enriching cultural exchange...
...think it did contribute. We spent a lot of time and a lot of money," she said. "By tearing down our poster, they were totally negating our efforts...