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...Take the first airplane. On Dec. 8, 1903, Samuel Pierpont Langley, a leading government-funded scientist, launched with much fanfare his flying machine on the Potomac. It plummeted into the river. Nine days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright got the first plane off the ground. Why did these bicycle mechanics succeed when a famous scientist failed? Because Langley hired other people to execute his concept. Studying the Wrights' diaries, you see that insight and execution are inextricably woven together. Over years, as they solved problems like wing shape and wing warping, each adjustment involved a small spark of insight that...
...admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender ’27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid from 1952 to 1960, described his ideal Harvard student as “a good, healthy extrovert...
...city is hardly alone. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, better known as CalPERS, handed out a pension check last year for $272,200 to a retired university professor. A former water-district general manager collected $206,300. CalPERS, by the way, invests in vulture funds formed by Wilbur Ross, the New York billionaire who specializes in buying bankrupt companies, slashing costs and then selling the firms for an oversize profit. Among the costs pared: pensions. In short, a public-employee pension fund makes money from the killing of private pensions...
...just talk. His coups this year alone include besting rival financier Wilbur Ross in a bidding war for textile firm WestPoint Stevens, forcing stock buybacks at energy firm Kerr-McGee and drug firm Mylan Laboratories, and (with a stunning 77% of the vote) landing three seats on the board of Blockbuster, the video chain...
...directorial debut, Showalter also writes and stars as Elliot Sherman a.k.a. The Baxter. A “Baxter” is “the kind of guy you settle with because you can’t be with the one you love.” Elliot Wilbur Sherman is as exciting as toothpaste. The man reads the dictionary...