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...nine films, Producer Ray Stark, says Simon "will bring in the most wonderful material and then, two weeks later, when I ask where it is, he will reply, 'Not good enough.' He still has a wonderful humility about his work and has about 150 first acts in his trunk." Simon's motivation seems not to be glory either. He is intensely private, says one of his best friends, Broadway Bound Producer Emanuel Azenberg: "Although he is very diligent during the rehearsing and rewriting, when we open the shows to the public, his interest diminishes precipitously." Simon himself says, "I like...
...certainly doing some of the work. Companies like eBay, GM and Motorola have all used software from Massachusetts firm Idiom Technologies to help power their efforts in localization, as language targeting is sometimes called. Still, it often takes a real brain to differentiate terms in context: the word trunk can refer to a suitcase, a car hatch or an elephant's snout, for example...
...game.His knowledge of Harvard football history, while comprehensive, is well complimented by his own meticulous record-keeping.He keeps bound volumes full of the Harvard-Yale programs, which date as far back as 1915. The collection expanded significantly when, as a high school student working for a contractor, he discovered a trunk full of old programs while gutting the house of a passed-on alum. Their colorful covers, often fancifully painted, were replaced for the 1960 game with a picture of the two captains. He can tell you the story behind that, too.And then there are the statistics.“Always...
...City’s experts prune the tree at about the same time? Second, in 2005, when construction began at the Grant Street site, why hadn’t Harvard provided a “tree surround” to protect the tree’s trunk and buttress roots from the heavy equipment? Was it because the construction workers and their supervisors already knew of Harvard’s decision to remove the tree-well before the City’s tree-removal hearing on Sept. 5? In any case, the extensive damage clearly visible...
Galluccio hoped to strike seven clauses from the document, two of which claimed that Harvard’s failure to install a legally mandated barrier around the trunk “resulted in substantial damage to 4 out of 6 buttress roots, requiring that the tree be removed as a safety hazard...