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...dusting off the 1974 television show Land of the Lost, director Brad Silberling's goal was not to craft a PG-rated romp through the educational terrain of Sid and Marty Krofft's original series, but to tweak and distort all the various elements that made the series a cult sensation in the first place. The movie, which hits theaters Friday, reimagines the space-time of this alternate universe with an eye toward the absurd. The story still centers on disgraced paleontologist Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell), but instead of his family he buddies up with scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna...
...attacked as financially wasteful by Republican National Committee, which, if memory serves, registered no public concern about the cost to the public of George W. Bush's 77 jaunts to the Texas boonies where he cut lots of brush, ran around and rode bikes in sweltering heat, and ignored various warnings of impending disasters...
...Harvard Business School and a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, both to make the transition to HMC seamless and to prepare the portfolio for volatile market conditions triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis. Kaplan says HMC invested in tail-risk insurance and aimed to deleverage the portfolio. While various media reports have called attention to Harvard’s attempts to sell large portions of its private equity portfolio at the height of the financial crisis, Kaplan notes that HMC had been preparing for such sales long before then, and that the outlook for the private equity market...
...finance, administration, and human resources offices—all of which previously reported directly to the President. And Forst—as well as his financial expertise—has proven invaluable to Faust over the past year, as he accompanies her to meetings with deans at the various schools and leads difficult but necessary conversations about Harvard’s financial state...
...these questions in my recent book, The Powers to Lead. How often have you heard someone say that a political candidate looks (or does not look) like a leader? A tall handsome person enters a room, draws attention, and “looks like a leader.” Various studies have shown that tall men are often favored, and corporate CEOs are taller than average. Moreover, tall men tend to earn more than shorter men. Other things being equal, an inch of height is worth nearly $800 a year in salary. But that may simply tell us about...