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...Stewart does it through winning community support. For the past year, he has labored tirelessly to transform the Murad Khane slum in Kabul's 200-year-old city center into a heritage district and tourist magnet for Afghans and foreigners alike. At first, local reaction was about the same as one would expect if some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming...
...Weitz was tapped to direct this fall's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, an adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman's fantasy series, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, the About a Boy director made the mistake of going online and reading a poll of fan reaction. "I had just barely beaten 'nobody' as the person who would be the best director for the series," says Weitz, who eventually invited some fans onto the set and proved his fanboy bona fides. Of course, the problem with catering to diehards is the potential for being held prisoner...
Kevin T. Ryan, a senior fellow at KSG and former military officer, has been impressed with the general reaction towards veterans. “I think the attitude at the Kennedy School is very positive towards the military and the military faculty, and this is a big change from the Vietnam era,” said Ryan...
...Roots are.” But, ever the diplomat, Posner says of Third Eye Blind: “I know everybody liked those songs when I was in 6th grade.” Indeed, for 3EB, 6th grade was a good year. “The only negative reaction I’ve heard is that they are a band that hasn’t had a hit in a long time, since our middle school days,” admits S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, Chair of the College Events Board. But beauty is in the eyes...
...Ironically, the group most threatened by technology is the tax prep software industry itself. A new generation of Web-based products, such as TaxAct, are slowly needling their way into the market dominated by Intuit and H&R Block. One reaction of the established players has been to offer services more akin to those of a professional preparer. People who sign up for Intuit's TurboTax Professional Pro supply tax data over the Internet and then have a phone conversation with a preparer, who ultimately does the filing. H&R Block's TaxCut Tango and Signature online products also have...