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...process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful writer, had committed suicide with sleeping pills. In December of that same year Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and sent to Dresden...
...another teenager. Instead of taking the big parts in horror movies or teen comedies that TV stars are always offered, he took small roles in Thank You for Smoking and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and then the lead in In the Land of Women. He wants to prove himself movieworthy, within limits. "I'm not going to rob banks and smoke crack to prove how not-television I am," he says. He's just going to smoke cigarettes, write soft porn and make out with moms and their daughters. Baby steps...
Word of mouth has been around for ages--"Try the apple," said Eve--and it continues to prove resilient. Even in the era of MySpace, some 90% of word of mouth still happens off-line, according to research by both P&G and the consultancy Keller Fay Group. Breaking it down, Keller Fay found that 18% of word-of-mouth marketing took place on the phone, and 72% face to face, despite the ubiquity of electronic communication. Or perhaps because of it. Inundated by marketing messages, says Tremor CEO Steve Knox, "consumers have gone back to their most trusted source...
...Though Faust may still have to prove herself in the eyes of some contributors, several donors said they did not believe that Harvard would suffer significantly from the change in leadership...
...time it takes you to write on your own Facebook wall, Harvard chemistry graduate student Thomas M. Snyder can complete the average Sudoku puzzle—and he has an entry in the Guinness World Records to prove it. Snyder also had about this amount of time to dwell on his victory in the final round of the World Sudoku Championship, held two weeks ago in Prague. With just over a minute left on the clock, Snyder sat back while his contenders struggled away, and mused, “Wow, I’ve just won the championship...