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...thing about this very modern melodrama is that it was played out among the septuagenarians on the board of Grace, whose founder, Irishman William Grace, started the venture back in 1854 by shipping bird dung from Peru to the U.S. for use as fertilizer. Perhaps more predictably, last week's admission came only after weeks of obfuscation on the part of the troubled company. The $5 billion conglomerate, which produces everything from plastics to kidney-dialysis equipment, initially blamed Bolduc's abrupt departure on "differences of style and philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX, LIES AND W.R. GRACE | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

Knowles read the parts of the bird, the duck and--of course--the grandfather with relish. His voice shook with fear and apprehension as the wolf chased the animals. The dean shivered when the duck jumped in the pond, and he gulped when the wolf swallowed the duck...alive...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Knowles Narrates for School Kids | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

...fear not, undergraduates. Dean Epps has promised us an answer to our prayers. It's a bird. It's a plane. No, It's the new Loker Commons. The Commons will be located under Memorial Hall and is scheduled to open...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Commons for Harvard College | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

...would confuse the Commons with a bird or a plane? As matters currently stand, it doesn't look as if the loker Commons can get Harvard social life off the ground...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Commons for Harvard College | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

...tune that did come off very well involved a vinyl recording of Maya Angelou reading her Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." DJ Apollo sampled and scratched Angelou's voice over a relaxed beat one verse at a time, each one followed by emphatic Marsalis horn lines that cleverly reflected and refracted the intonation of Angelou's speech. The effect was very cool indeed...

Author: By Ramsay Ravenel, | Title: A Musical Melting Pot At the Roxy | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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