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However, the miserable performance of previous events designed to utilize Loker more effectively does not doom Pub Night to a swift and ignominious end. The fundamentally better premise of Harvard Pub Night, as well as the large amount of effective energy and planning devoted to it, seems likely to result in an experience that is welcome and enjoyable. Felipe’s burritos and Pinnochio’s pizza are excellent enough in their own right; combine them with cheap beer and good music, and they can be the cornerstone for a truly enjoyable evening...
...This PSN proposal is not punitive. It’s designed to be more supportive in assisting new, young public service groups and get them the assistance they need to make their organizations effective,” said Meg Brooks Swift ’93, Director of the Public Service Network. This proposal will be discussed in further detail in a sub-committee...
...taking the biggest risks. He put his marker down 16 months ago when he announced that Kodak would cut dividends, slash investments in its film business--and milk its declining profits to fund $3 billion worth of acquisitions and investments crucial to the digital transformation. The market response was swift and brutal: Kodak's stock price plunged 18% that day to a 20-year low. Carp followed up with a plan to eliminate nearly a quarter of the company's 64,000-person work force by 2006. Still, Wall Street analysts doubted that Kodak, with its legacy culture and reputedly...
...Historically, approval ratings below 30% have meant a swift ouster for a Japanese Prime Minister. But it's hard to see this as the end of the Koizumi era. The PM has recovered from shallower depths before, helped by a shrewdly timed foreign trip here, a Cabinet reshuffle there. "I think he is preparing another diplomatic surprise," says Toshikawa, "and this one may involve mending relations with China...
...blurted it out on the air. The show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other...