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...ATTENDING MEETINGS AND EVENTS: Bottom line: EVERY EVENT AND EVERY MEETING IS MANDATORY, extenuating circumstances notwithstanding. As such, mark these dates now and write your papers and do your problem sets ahead of time! THE FEE FOR MISSING A PUNCH MEETING (or a significant portion of one) IS $25. Please note that arriving late and/or leaving early are also considered ‘missing’ in most circumstances...
...Sara Lee Corp. of Chicago, a global maker of food products, ended 2004 with a pension deficit of $1.5 billion. The company's pension plans held enough assets to cover 69.8% of promised retirement pay. Ford Motor Co.'s deficit came in at $12.3 billion. It could write retirement checks for 83% of money owed. ExxonMobil Corp. was down $11.5 billion, with enough money to issue retirement checks covering 61% of promised benefits. Exxon had extracted $1.6 billion from its pension plans in 1986 because they were deemed overfunded. The company explained then that "our shareholders would be better served...
...thought, ‘This is silly. I’m doing this algorithmic thing that a computer could do,’” said Zakharevich. “And then, I wondered, ‘Why not write a computer program...
...greatest moment of glory, however, was still to come with the public performance of his Ninth Symphony in May 1824. For anyone that has heard it before (or at least seen the unspeakably horrible Starz movie network commercial that uses it), the music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
Screenwriter Shane Black, the guy behind a bunch of unremarkable mid-90s action movies (such as “Lethal Weapon”) most recently directs and writes “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” a smart-assed labor of love, both a hokey pulp murder-mystery and satire of same, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. The film’s most dubious aspect, though, is a bizarre half-baked subplot involving child sexual abuse. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Kilmer and Black—either from jet-lag or sheer fatigue...