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Neither garlic nor holy water could ward off the country’s taste for vampires this holiday season. The vampire/human couple at the heart of Stephenie Meyer??s wildly successful Twilight book series stole the hearts of preteen girls nationwide—studios rushed to produce a movie version, news magazines splashed headlines like “A New J.K. Rowling?”, and Amazon reported that it had sold enough copies of the fourth “Twilight” book to scale Mt. Everest eight times...
...publishing industry largely chose to ignore this incident or to brush off Meyer??s response as overreacting, but it should have taken the downloaders seriously. For this episode contains a clear imperative: If books are to remain profitable, publishers must imitate the music industry and see artistic content as a gateway to more profitable ventures...
...around gender and is sure to have audiences talking after the film ends. “Let the Right One In” is a difficult film that defies genre conventions and disallows any allegorizing. It’s also incredibly heartfelt and deeply moving. The popularity of Stephenie Meyer??s book series, “Twilight,” which also revolves around the relationship between a human and a vampire, has proven that the market for this type of story is strong. Those who are interested in seeing the film adaptation of Meyer?...
...when asked about the Private Equity Week report last week, citing a standing Harvard policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief Jack R. Meyer??s Convexity Capital Management—also declined to comment at the time on any action HMC may be taking to sell investments it has with them. Private equity has traditionally been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning an annualized...
...Longbrake declined to confirm the sale due to Harvard’s standing policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief Jack R. Meyer??s Convexity Capital—all declined to comment on any action HMC may be taking to sell the investments it has with them. “We have a policy of not talking about our investments or our business outside of our client base,” said...