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...flying on a loan from the Harvard Club of Mississippi (an assistant director’s father is a member), a $5,000 loan through the Agassiz Theatre, and a prayer.But despite all these obstacles, Hanley thinks he’ll do the impossible—He hopes to rake in roughly $25,000 from “Chicago,” and donate the funds to the Office For The Arts at Harvard, as an endowment for House drama productions.Hanley’s expectations are not entirely unfounded. Last year, he directed Steve Martin?...
...Starbucks,” Maats says. After being rejected by the gourmet coffee trade, Maats joined up with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like “Crack the SAT.” All Overqualified employees have Harvard degrees, which Maats says...
That hefty increase in acquisition costs is a plus, though, because it amounts to a formidable obstacle for new competitors. PartyPoker can afford the ante. In the first nine months of this year, the average daily "rake"--its cut of the amount bet--rose a third, to more than $2 million. Despite a summer stock swoon, market players are still betting that online poker isn't a short-term fad. One thing hasn't changed: you won't find Bhargava in a casino, online or real, anytime soon. "I can see myself playing poker off-line...
...long been so reluctant to make the move. Roche announced Wednesday that its revenues climbed 17% in the third quarter, boosted in large part by world-wide demand for Tamiflu. Sales of the drug more than doubled, to $215 million in the quarter. Roche expects to rake in as much as $925 million from Tamiflu sales this year, up from $266 million in 2004. And as governments keep building their stockpiles, it will continue to generate billion-dollar revenues for the next couple of years, according to Keith Redpath, head of Wood Mackenzie Life Sciences Research...
...tents down, since it came in so low in celebration of what the crew suspected it had done: end the war. Later we flew our C-46 transport plane to Omura, Japan. As we looked down at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed as if somebody had taken a rake and cleared those cities off the earth. I am now 80 years old, and while those memories may have been suppressed, they were never erased from my mind. I only pray such bombs will never be used again. Robert P. Good Shenandoah, Virgina...