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Walter E. Howell ’09 and Robert I. Padnick ’09 have developed a new, efficient mode of communication. “I’ve called up Robert before and said, ‘Smash,’ and he says, ‘Done,’ and two minutes later, we’re smashing,” Howell says.“Smashing,” in this case, doesn’t refer to drinking games or car windows; it’s their code for playing the cartoonish Nintendo...
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE HAYAO MIYAZAKI This Oscar-nominated antiwar fable was an art film in North America (box office: $4.7 million) but a popular smash worldwide ($229.6 million). That was nothing new for Miyazaki. His hand-drawn animated fantasies (Porco Rosso, Spirited Away) have long appealed to kids and connoisseurs alike. Here he has transported his gift for alchemizing the mundane from Japan to Western Europe a century ago. A spell instantly ages the heroine, Sophie, from 18 to 90 and lands her as a housekeeper inside the walking wonder house owned by a dishy shape shifter. Following...
...refused to take rejection lying down. FM bullied Summers into accepting its challenge, so each issue of Fall 2003 featured The Larry Summers Tennis Watch. Just when FM was getting discouraged and “it appeared that our weak lob of hope had been crushed by the overhand smash of Presidential indifference,” a miracle happened—Summers agreed to play. Apparently running a drawing of the pudgy president being pelted by tennis balls and cruelly disparaging captions for five weeks worked wonders. In the epic match-up, Summers and his doubles partner, former...
...those of us watching, this year's Oscar crop is a quiet bunch: very serious and not terribly popular. The absence of a pure audience smash is an X factor that adds to the mystery, the thrill of the gamble. And if you haven't seen all the films, don't worry. We have, and to help guide you through the awards, we're handicapping the races. How did we make our picks? From conversations with Academy insiders and nominees, from our experience of Oscars past and, well, from tea leaves. But use these picks for your Oscar pool...
...Sony, Toyota and Toshiba, manufacturing is still widely regarded as the only honorable industry. Organic growth is esteemed above all, and many large companies still disdain the idea of mergers and acquisitions. To this day, there has never been a successful hostile takeover in Japan. Horie looked to smash these conventions. Rather than expanding slowly over many years, he discovered he could generate outsized growth by rapidly acquiring smaller, financially weaker prey, typically using Livedoor stock as the currency. He cobbled together an empire by purchasing no less than 50 firms, often with the help of so-called special-purpose...