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...Gears” ad has, its creation was hardly an avant-garde gesture of “l’art pour l’art.”In this case, the game is already so well-hyped—preorder sales alone were rumored to reach $100 million??that Microsoft can afford to go out on a limb with the ad. “Gears” has been designed from the ground up as a “cinematic” game.Designer Cliff Bleszinski refers to the game’s central aesthetic...
While gift receipts to Harvard Business School in 2006 totaled only $57 million??a 54 percent decline from the previous year, when the final year of a capital campaign helped to boost the B-School bounty—Harvard said that other parts of the University “more than offset” the decline. Gifts to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences rose 15 percent...
...physical expansion of the University in a speech to the Associated Harvard Clubs, a group of alumni, in the spring of 1956. Calling the speech the “most serious and important” of his presidency up to that point, Pusey declared that Harvard needed $40 million??the equivalent of $287.5 million today—to meet the “building needs” of just those currently enrolled at the University.Pusey’s remarks came only one year after the publication of an Overseers’ report that advocated the expansion...
...well. There is reason to be hopeful. Astonishingly, all 30 of the articles in the Ec10 coursepack this semester are available, for free, through the E-Resources on Harvard College Library (HCL) website. HCL uses income from our term-bill to help pay “upwards of $4 million?? for subscriptions to 6,820 electronic resources, including databases that contain many of the same articles that are in our coursepacks! Yes, you heard correctly: We’re paying twice for many articles. The winners here are the copyright holders. They get paid first from the library...
...blockbuster come from the man whose mega-grossing films helped coin the term, George Lucas. In a recent interview with New York Daily News, the “Star Wars” mogul predicted that by 2025 the average budget of a studio film would be $15 million??less than most A-list stars’ asking salaries...