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...member Architect Selection Committee was so low-tech?so unlike anything seen in architectural pitches in decades?that Riley remembers it as a near disaster. "Taniguchi is not what you'd call trained in the art of salesmanship," he says. "There were no special effects, no flip-books, no PowerPoint presentations. What you had was a rather shy man talking about his philosophy of architecture. It was probably one of the worst presentations I've seen in my life." But once Taniguchi focused on his design and began pointing out the salient features of his model, says Riley, "there came...
Most funny class moments are never captured on celluloid, destined to live forever after only in anecdotes. Richard Wragham and Marc Hauser keep the students of Science B-29: Evolution of Human Nature amused with a steady stream of witty banter and PowerPoint depictions of baboon...
...River caters to MIT, Harvard, Tufts and Northeastern, among other area schools. It was a modern sermon in an old setting: a PowerPoint presentation was controlled by youth leaders at laptops, and fading murals of constellations and pirates colored the concrete walls. In the back row, the off-duty guitarist scooted his chair closer to a girl and subtly slid his arm around...
...that I did something so hardcore that not only was I in possession of extremely sensitive and confidential information, I actually often read and understood it. Occasionally I was also responsible for delivering said information to various members of our and other firms. Once I even spell-checked a Powerpoint presentation that was being given to the CFO of a Fortune 500 corporation. The CFO! I considered changing the order of the bullet-points in favor of the transaction so that the lines starting with my initials read sequentially, but the risk of being found out was just too great...
...James Dillon, a partner at Foley Hoag, the Boston-based law firm that sponsored the event. Prosecutors and regulators are circling, the executives were told. Would-be whistle-blowers are collecting promotional materials, saving e-mails, taping phone calls--in the hope of sharing in a jackpot settlement. A PowerPoint slide at the conference showed a kitten (representing the drug industry) in front of a row of German shepherds (the federal regulators), unleashed and ready to pounce...