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Experienced, old school painter Art--or Arthur as he likes to be called--doesn't think that little wannabe-artist Max can really come up with something equally amazing, but he's in for a surprise when Max shows him what he can do, and that art is definitely not just about being predictable and formularistic.

When Marx came to doing his own interpretations, his major historical essays - particularly The Eighteenth Brumaire, Class Struggles in France, The Civil War in France - you don't find any formularistic thinking.

Prominent securities lawyer Martin Lipton calls the Statement "definitive," writing to his firm's clients that"it rejects the formularistic approach of CalPERS and the box-checking approach of the NACD." Commentator Patrick McGurn, in a piece in his shareholder-advisory firm's ISS Friday Report aptly entitled "The Empire Strikes Back," suggests, however, that the Statement "may offer too little and come too late to slow the juggernaut." More extreme is Prof.