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...hard to find anyone who thinks the women should have turned themselves in. It is equally hard to find anyone who detects a note of triumph in their suicide. Novelist Alix Kates Shulman quotes La Pasionaria on this point: "It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees." But as Brooklyn Law School professor Elizabeth Schneider points out, the message here is that "self-assertion and awakening lead to death." Or, as film scholar Annette Insdorf puts it, "When death is your only choice, how free...
Sarah Igo '91, Alix Ohlin '92 and Susan Schwab '92 are co-chairs of the Radcliffe Union of Students' Academic Affairs Committee...
...since merger madness first hit corporate America in the mid-'80s has so lucrative a financial field opened up so swiftly. Says Robert Miller, a Manhattan attorney who advises failing companies: "The buyout business of the 1980s has become the turnaround business of the 1990s." Concurs bankruptcy adviser Jay Alix: "To us, LBO means large bankruptcy opportunity...
...rich range of services to their corporate clients for fees that can reach $6,000 a day. The specialists take over a company's debt-cleanup chores, including negotiations with banks and creditor committees, leaving executives free to run their businesses. "Some people call us vultures," says adviser Jay Alix, "but that's unfair, because we provide a valuable service. Just as people with cancer go to a doctor, and people with a toothache go to a dentist, sick companies come to us. We're debt doctors...
Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps...