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...This may not be the truth for everyone,” Benton said, referring to his filmmaking philosophy, “but it’s the truth for me.” Benton’s approach is composed of equal parts rural Texas upbringing—straightforward and slightly off-kilter—and 1960s New York—uncompromising and envelope-pushing. Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, and lived his first years during the Great Depression. All he wanted to do was read, and he said that he can still remember the look of the covers...
...experienced political turmoil in recent years, but that has posed less trouble than unexpected tax increases. Operators were forced to subsidize a 2005 levy imposed on the sale of SIM cards in Bangladesh, for instance. And in Grameenphone's case, work with its local partner hasn't always been straightforward for Telenor. The Norwegian firm owns 62% of Grameenphone, with Grameen Telecom - part of the bank founded by Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus - owning the rest. Yunus claims the Norwegians reneged on a deal to cede majority control a few years back. Telenor maintains no such agreement ever...
...Wray: I remember sitting there having the conversation in the garden. The idea seemed very straightforward, and I came up with lots of ideas why I didn't think it would work, and I said "it won't work because of this," and Bert said "no, no, you do this, you do that" and it appealed. Although, as he said, I was working at JPMorgan at the time, and I didn't really think a lot of it until probably March the following year, when I decided to take a break from JPMorgan...
...remember, this was the time when, if you didn't have a dotcom idea, there was something wrong with you. It seemed you could raise money for any dotcom idea, and so to be honest I thought it was going to be very straightforward just to go out and raise money. Probably because we thought it would be very easy, it was a bit hit-and-miss the way I put it together. We went to a few institutions at the end of '99, and basically, they said "thanks, but no thanks." We subsequently found out one of the reasons...
...birdie holes. You’ve got to come in strong. We just never really played together and so couldn’t play our best.” “There’s not much to it,” Mayer said of the straightforward course. Behind Mayer, junior captain Michael Shore put in the next best Harvard performance shooting 75-74, tying him for 10th individually. Last week Shore led the Yale tournament, helping to put together the Harvard victory. Sophomore Greg Shuman contributed two rounds at 76 and tied for 20th. Moseley shot 78 both...