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...victim of erratic returns at the box office. Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans and Warren Beatty, his co-star in Fortune. Nicholson, along with his real gifts, has always had a canny ability to move with the heat. He has done it so well that now he is the heat. He knew he had it knocked after he saw a rough cut of Chinatown. "Mogul...
Prominent Harvard affiliates who were involved with the Swedenborgian church include psychologist William James, philosopher Henry James, Sr., University President James Bryant Conant ’13, and Langford Warren, the father of the Design School...
...organic chemistry at the last minute, and both Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics” and Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice” will always be able to squeeze in the extra person. But if you shopped “The Warren Court” and decided it would make a great fourth class, or you thought about taking a photography class or an oversubscribed history seminar, forget it. The doors to those courses will have closed long...
During investment banker Herb Allen's annual gathering for media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, last July--when locals were paid $20 an hour just to be available for baby sitting--Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft at one point turned for advice to investment legend Warren Buffett, who sits on Coke's board. What would happen, Daft wondered, if Coke suddenly stopped giving Wall Street quarterly earnings estimates? Buffett answered that Coke's shares would be more volatile and some investors would sell but that these were prices worth paying. Daft would forever "be free from that fiction," Buffett said...
...today--but that wasn't the case just a few years ago. In December 1999--about the same time Buffett presciently warned in FORTUNE that stock-market returns were on the verge of a dramatic and long-lasting slowdown--a writer at Barron's stated what many were thinking: "Warren Buffett may be losing his magic touch." As the Internet craze mounted through the '90s, Buffett had become a renowned technophobe. But consider this feat: during the past three grueling bear-market years, Berkshire stock has soared nearly 40%. Those remarkable returns came during a period when hundreds of companies...