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...uniformed butlers glide around serving executives catered gourmet lunches at their desks. Many clients receive annual invitations to conferences like one held in July at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. In 1992, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Investcorp threw a lavish party at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Guests nibbled on caviar served from ice sculptures and strolled under garlands of peonies adorned with caged songbirds. When major deals are in the works, senior executives zoom across the Atlantic on the Concorde. "They fly the Concorde if they want a salami sandwich," jokes a former bank adviser...
...Hershiser, who was so nice that he stopped his press conference after winning Game Five because he heard someone's tape recorder click off on the table in front of him. (He found the recorder, flipped over the cassette and resumed talking.) On the other hand, Hershiser's teammate, Albert Belle, verbally assaulted nbc reporter Hannah Storm as she waited in the Indians' dugout before Game Three. (Shouldn't Albert and Hannah swap names...
...years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living...
...Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...
...Together with the U.C., we were able to publicize this rally the way that no political issue has been publicized in years, and the response we got is that Harvard is rejecting its apathetic past," Albert said...