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Dozens of audience members were aggressively positioning themselves for a handclasp with the former commander-in-chief in the din-filled ballroom of the Westin Hotel at Copley Place, where Clinton was headlining a fundraiser for Patrick...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Next President Same as Last? | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...PowerPoint presentation that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) made to a capacity crowd in the Charles Hotel’s ballroom makes a host of self-conscious comparisons to the company’s leading competitors. But BCG is particularly proud of its employees’ lengthy corpus of corporate self-help works published under the company imprimatur...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Wanted: Self-Aggrandizement | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...McKinsey & Co.’s introductory session—held several days later in the same ballroom with the same faces in the audience—attendees were given a 42-page hardcover book, “The Key to Leadership,” which creepily intimates, “[McKinsey] is the key that has opened doors for people like you to positions of leadership...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Wanted: Self-Aggrandizement | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...watching a loved one struggle with disease. For Mary Irvine, whose stepdaughter Candice, then 24, wished for a family cruise, the dream allowed her to see a glimmer of Candice as she used to be. "We snorkeled, we hiked up a god-awful hill to a lighthouse, we took ballroom-dancing lessons, we went to the casinos. Candice knew everybody on the ship," says Irvine. A mechanic in the Air Force, Candice died of breast cancer three weeks later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dream Before Dying | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

Viktor & Rolf also touched on the theme of formality and showed their collection of Ice Capades-inspired clothes against the backdrop of a full orchestra and Rufus Wainwright singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." A pair of ballroom dancers opened the show and four pairs of male-on-male ballroom dancers closed it. The purpose was to launch their new men's fragrance, Antidote, but this witty Amsterdam-based duo are not afraid to add a bit of social commentary to their work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Fun With Formality | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

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