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...widely regarded as a braggart who was lucky to have become chairman of a studio in the first place. But his twisting-in-the-Santa-Ana-winds demise didn't raise spirits at Sony. And he wasn't the only casualty. On Wednesday Variety confidently reported that Arnold Rifkin, worldwide head of motion pictures for the William Morris Agency, had been offered Canton's job. Many observers were surprised, as Rifkin lacks executive experience. But since joining William Morris nearly four years ago, he has done much to re-energize the agency's sleepy movie business, adding such clients...
...Rifkin confirmed that he was in talks. Unfortunately for him he was talking to Levine, who apparently hoped that a Rifkin hire would help him hold on to his own job. "Arnold was the horse that Levine was riding," says a source sympathetic to Rifkin. "Arnold got to the starting gate and found out his jockey was dead." Early Thursday morning, Rifkin attended a chilly meeting with Sony chief Nobuyuki Idei. After an hour punctuated with awkward silences, it was clear that Sony wouldn't make Rifkin's deal...
...really pissed off," said Scott A. Rifkin '97, a Leverett resident who needs a Literature and Arts B course to graduate in June. Rifkin was astounded to find he was rejected from the course, which has an enrollment cap of 72 because of the need to keep studio sections small. "I've been trying to figure this out for the past couple of days. I haven't quite figured it out. It's a problem, because study cards are due tomorrow...
...Rifkin said it's often very difficult for seniors to juxtapose their Core requirements into busy, thesis-laden schedules. Instead of B-17, he hopes to take Literature and Arts B-33: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture" in the spring--if he gets in, that...
...case with most of Rifkin's campaigns, there is a real issue hidden underneath the overheated rhetoric: Who should profit from a country's indigenous genetic resources? A parallel question was solved for material resources years ago. Countries with oil or minerals simply kicked out foreign exploiters or forced them into fair profit-sharing agreements...