Word: stanley
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...your films had become a pop-culture phenomenon-like "That's such Woody Allen dialogue."? -Brian O'Keeffe, SeattleI've been making films since 1967, and I've never felt I've influenced anybody in any way. People make films like Scorsese makes them, like Spielberg makes them, like Stanley Kubrick made them. I never see young people that I've influenced either as a personality or as a filmmaker...
With its Chinese lettering and unremarkable name, the fast-food outlet in a Shanghai shopping mall looks like many others selling local fare. East Dawning is crowded with customers on this winter evening, and they're sampling a menu that includes pork fried rice, marinated egg and plum juice. Stanley Yao, a restaurateur from Hong Kong who is opening a sushi joint nearby, dines here once a month. The food is "a little too oily," he says, but he likes the soy-milk drinks, and "the prices, of course, are very reasonable." (A meal of noodles, tea and custard dessert...
...father Stanley Johnson, an environmentalist and a former Member of the European Parliament, calls this "the fight against crooks and nannies looking into nooks and crannies." Like son, like father. Both Johnsons make a humor pit stop every few minutes. But, says Johnson senior, beneath the comic exterior, his son has a "solid, philosophical outlook" and a "real, substantial core of belief...
...sort of Darwinian struggle for the loudest and vituperative.” Some professors cautioned against voting down a motion with a seemingly noncontroversial message. “All of this is what the French might call an exercise in drowning a fish,” French historian Stanley Hoffmann said. “It would be seen as very bizarre in the hinterlands that Harvard has rejected a perfectly sensible motion protecting free speech.” Several amendments were made to the proposal over the course of the meeting, with the most significant one explicitly disavowing the relation...
...originally of the class of 2006, Harvard has seen a surge in undergraduate entrepreneurs. While Harvard entrepreneurs admit that having “CEO” or “founder” written on your resume can’t hurt when applying to business school or Morgan Stanley, most of these go-getters insist that only sincere passion pushed them into the cold world of business at such a tender...