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Ultimately, the coalition’s application will succeed or fail not only with the approval of the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Office, but also with that of Harvard’s powers-that-be. The government stipulates that applications for the grant must come from Massachusetts universities—not from student groups...
...There is no greater satisfaction then providing a test to animals and watching them succeed or fail, for even the latter tells us something profound about how they see the world,” says Hauser, who started the lab in 1992. During his time at Harvard he has conducted experiments in knowledge perception, acoustic recognition and concept formation, among other fields. He has published four books about primate behavior, taught at several universities in the United States and conducted field research in Uganda and in Puerto Rico, where he invites some of his students each year...
...Talk magazine that became his white whale. A joint venture between Miramax and Hearst, the talked-about but uncompelling monthly died after less than three years. One Miramax executive says the company lost $27 million. Another says, "Talk was a constant distraction. Harvey wanted it to succeed as a magazine and financially, and every day was another problem." For a while, he seemed to lose interest in film-festival acquisitions. Instead of doing what he does best--ferret out small, arty indie films and promote them to the moon--he produced a list of teen movies that were safe...
...been Coke's for 22 years. Coke, meanwhile, dismisses the NFL setback as less important than the individual sponsorships it retains with two-thirds of the league's teams. "We're still an NFL sponsor," asserts Jeff Dunn, head of Coke in the Americas. Dunn, a candidate to succeed CEO Douglas Daft in a few years, insists that the "passion point" for consumers is local teams. He says the cost of the league sponsorship had escalated beyond its value...
...immediately clear how the administration expects Powell to succeed where Zinni failed. President Bush's unambiguous call on Sharon to withdraw will almost certainly force the Israeli leader to comply, but the absence of a clear time frame - and the fact that Powell will arrive only next week - is being interpreted in Israel as tacit U.S. approval for a few more days of militar action...