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Siblings make us who we are. What has always seemed like common sense has finally been confirmed by scientific research. When I was preparing the dreaded tell-us-about-yourself essay for college applications last year, I submitted a draft to satisfy a class assignment, and my teacher told me that I had written a great essay--about my brother. It's hard to describe who you are only in terms of yourself when the people you've grown up with are the ones who made you that...
...does mean things for fun. I still remember, from seeing the film 51 years ago, a scene where Hammer picks up a man's beloved old Caruso record and snaps it in two. (The same year I'd seen Blackboard Jungle, where the vicious high-school punks smash a teacher's Bix Beiderbecke records. So I knew Mike was a bad guy.) The music plays up his thug character as well. When Mike shows up in a doorway, we hear the clanging chords that usually greet the first appearance of a monster. This isn't a private eye film...
...This one, I don't care if it's genuine, for in two sentences it distills the richness of a Sinclair Lewis novel: "The man to who you sent your advertisement died suddenly last Thursday. He was a Sunday school teacher, leader in Boy Scout Council, loved by his sales force and customers - and hated by his wife for his sexual perversions encouraged by magazine's like yours...
...recruiter had not told any lies. He offered her a way to make some money for college, so that, when this hitch was over, she could become the kindergarten teacher she wanted to be. And he offered a way to escape the inertia of the West Virginia hills, a place so beautiful that a young person can forget, sometimes until she is very old, that she is standing still. In the process, she would serve her country, something people in her part of America still say without worrying that someone will roll his eyes...
...DIED. Theodore Levitt, 81, legendary Harvard Business School professor who was credited with coining the term globalization in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article; in Belmont, Massachusetts. A provocative teacher and scholar, Levitt wrote eight books on marketing. He contributed 25 articles to the Review, including the influential "Marketing Myopia" in 1960, which argued that companies suffer because executives defined their businesses too narrowly and has sold 850,000 reprints...