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...centerpiece of Kaplan's firm is Institutional Investor magazine, a glossy monthly with 77,000 well-heeled subscribers (average household income: $147,000). It has an avid following on Wall Street for its irreverent reporting and its annual ratings of securities analysts. Kaplan will stay on as editor in chief of the magazine, but music will also command his attention. He plans to conduct the Mahler work again, with the London Symphony Orchestra...
Tall and athletic, Juan Carlos was known is an avid sportsman (and still is, although a pelvic injury last year has slowed him somewhat). He was a member of Spain's 1972 Dragon-class Olympic sailing team. A black belt in karate, it was said its kept his broken boards in a mansion closet. He is also an avid motorcyclist...
...comparing the academic interests of her college years with those of her daughters, my mother, a member of the Radcliffe period of 1899, said. "We were avid for science--the theory of evolution, the decline of outdated theology. Now girls are interested in world affairs, international relations. The world does move...
...object to the implication that "environmentalist" means "non-hunter." To hunt and to be concerned about the environment are not mutually exclusive. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, was one of the driving forces behind the conservation movement...
...reveal myself or who I am," he said in 1972. Hart once suggested his relationship with Lee was "a reform marriage": they have separated twice, and reconciled most recently in the spring of 1982. In public they seem distant, rarely glancing at each other or touching. Hart is an avid reader. Not long ago, a reporter suggested he read Ironweed, William Kennedy's prizewinning novel; Hart did. He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a dissection of Henry Kissinger. Since 1980 Hart and Maine Senator William Cohen have been writing a novel about international terrorism...