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...Fraser's recent trend toward a less embellished singing style. Considering her assertion that abuse in childhood led her to sing in nonsense syllables, one can only be glad to see her emergence into the realm of the intelligible. Yet Fraser's voice has now lost its most striking asset, an "I'm either verging on a nervous breakdown or about to explode with joy" quality. Her singing on this EP is on a par with the pretty but insipid vocals of the Sundays' Harriet Wheeler -- without the cynical edge of humor that makes Wheeler palatable...
Administrators also agree that Bovet is an important asset to Radcliffe's mission...
...conglomerate that owns the Showtime and mtv cable networks, Simon & Schuster publishing, the Blockbuster video chain and Paramount's movie and TV empire--he has been regarded as a smart, low-key executive who stresses teamwork over autocratic rule. But being a team player is not always an asset when the reigning autocrat--in this case, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone--wants to run the show. Last week, in a move that surprised practically everyone, Biondi was fired...
...figured prominently in her campaign-finance course at Brigham Young University, Enid used $150,000 of her father's money by selling back to him a house he had given her. In '94 she needed millions, so Joe had to launder more of Daddy's money with a convoluted asset swap. The only difference is that those assets, Joe's family trusts, didn't exist. Enid admitted last week that she had lied about the transaction during the campaign, insisting that the windfall came from hard work and being otherwise "blessed." But she did so only because the truth...
Jobs with titles like management consulting, asset manager and project analyst are mysterious enough in and of themselves. But the greater and more disturbing mystery is that so many seniors intensely vie for these positions. As much as we'd like to know how Goldman Sachs is going to give us an opportunity to step beyond the boundaries, we're far more desperate to find out why Harvard students heralded for their intelligence, diversity, creativity and talent are flocking toward firms where regardless of what their ads say, or what exactly they do, the paramount goal is to make money...