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Since the current presidential election campaign began in earnest more than a year ago, 13 professors from the Harvard Business School (HBS) were contributors. The Kennedy School of Government had nine donors, the Harvard Law School had six, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had four, and the Harvard Medical school and Graduate School of Education had three donors each...
...fact, both candidates need to quickly shroud their ultra-conservative overtures once they leave the Palmetto State. Bush, in particular, has made earnest overtures to the far right while in South Carolina, says Lopez, and these efforts to secure a victory there could cost him dearly later. "Bush went to the head of the class with his visit to Bob Jones University," says Lopez. The university embraces staunchly right-wing (some would say racist) rhetoric, which Bush didn't address on his trip to the school. That sort of miscue won't play well in California or New York...
...search began in earnest after my retirement was announced in early September," Kovach said. "We have been gathering names ever since...
...Loot: that devil-may-care attitude to any sense of right and wrong or to any constancy at all. None of the characters try too hard to hide their crimes, and they very readily confess it to whomever is interested. The gay lover, Dennis, as played by a very earnest and sympathetic Sean Dugan, easily declares his love for Fay and his wish to marry her. And in this amoral world, all the criminals of the conspiracy end up with money and huge laughs, whilst Mr. McLeavy (played by the stoic Alvin Epstein), who would rather protect his son than...
...typical mental-hygiene film has all the earnest artlessness of an Ed Wood psychodrama. And those sweet, distressed faces belong to volunteer teen actors in Glenview, Ill. (home of Coronet Films, which produced some 500 instructionals just in the '50s), and Lawrence, Kans. (Centron Films). That's one appeal of these pictures today: their mid-American isolation from mainstream movie glamour, even as they aped Hollywood's techniques of storytelling and propaganda...