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...academia at its worst,” Mankiw said. “The university should stand for open debate and be willing to listen to differing points of view, especially from someone as prominent as Larry Summers who has reached the pinnacles of academia.” Maureen Stanton, one of the petition’s organizers and an ecology professor at Davis, did not respond to requests for comment yesterday. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...more from friends and associates. But while Bush's bundlers, whom he designated Pioneers and Rangers, were high-powered CEOs and lobbyists, Obama's bundlers include such unlikely political players as Andrew Nicholas, who tutors refugee students at Denver's South High School; Emily Stanton, a stay-at-home mom in Baltimore; and Jeff Larson, a software engineer in Chicago. They are among the 9,500 volunteers, says the campaign, who have signed up to solicit their friends and families by hosting individual fund-raising Web pages for Obama...
...inch. His friends have forwarded his e-mails to their friends, which explains why half the 14 people who have given through his site are people Nicholas has never met. Many are giving more than he asked for--either that, or his donors are 7 1/2 ft. tall. Stanton has raised $744 from 18 people by tying her fund raising to her efforts to train for her first marathon, an idea that came to her while she was at the gym. As for Larson, he says, "I'm too timid" to ask more than seven of his closest friends--though...
...gesture. Remy, too, in the hands of director Brad Bird and his gifted animators, is a veritable Shakespeare of shrugs. The suppleness with which Remy scoots through both human and rodent worlds lends Ratatouille the believability at the center of Pixar classics like John Lasseter's Toy Story, Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo and Bird's own The Incredibles...
Most movie directors have individual contracts with their studios; the Pixar directors are employees of the company, contributing on all studio projects. The so-called Brain Trust--Lasseter, Bird and Stanton, along with directors Lee Unkrich, Bob Peterson, Brenda Chapman, Pete Docter and Gary Rydstrom and one recent recruit, Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt--convenes regularly to spitball ideas and, Lasseter says, "help one another make these films. We're very honest...