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Nowhere is the team concept more ingrained or successful than at American Funds, whose managers avoid the spotlight like a stock headed for bankruptcy. The company's guiding theme: many heads with varying strategies, each doing his best with his slice of the fund, produce more good ideas and protect the fund from fads. "We've been doing it this way since 1958," says Drew Taylor, vice president of client services...
...stage of the Loeb Experimental Theatre space is well used, as the director stages different settings in different areas of the theater to avoid the time-consuming onstage set changes, for which the play is often criticized. Stark, clean lighting reemphasizes the harshness of the graphic all-white sets. The set design, also by Burkle, is so strikingly minimalist that the walls seem like blank canvases. In fact, when Berenger’s friend Jean (Michael B. Hoagland ’07) throws up during his sickness, the green vomit becomes art as it drips down the wall in abstract...
...economies to look inward. The government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, installed in June, has reaffirmed a fervid commitment to the French social model and pleaded for "economic patriotism" to protect French firms and jobs from foreign competition - even from within the E.U. The government seems keen to avoid European affairs, so much so that former French Foreign Minister and European Commissioner Michel Barnier says Brussels is "worried whether France will play its part in getting Europe going again." The questions of discrimination and colonial legacies raised by the riots, along with the gathering political battle to succeed Chirac...
...heard it here first. The video for their best song, “Very Loud,” fits just about perfectly. It’s mostly some bewildered traipsing about in the woods, but thankfully directors Ted (the bassist) and Tom (a bassist in another Swedish band) Malmros avoid the high-brow, high-budget traipsing of Coldplay’s nerdy video for “The Scientist.” No sir, it’s just good, clean (cheap) fun for THIS European pop-rock getup. As it turns out, this Malmros team is responsible...
...semester, we will have no animosity towards Harvard because of that.” The UC and Tulane freshmen at the rally yesterday said they will continue to pressure Harvard administrators, and hope that the rest of the Harvard community will support their cause.because it would allow them to avoid tackling FAIR’s free-speech claims head...