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Chess is a thought-provoking story of two world-class chess players--Anatoly, a Russian, and Freddie, an American--competing against the backdrop of Cold War tension and paranoia. With lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of Abba, the songs were quirky and delightful. The play opens in Budapest in 1956 with a man is teaching his young daughter Florence to play chess. Soldiers rush in and take Florence away, and the scene shifts to the present, where arrogant, self-centered Freddie (Michael Kim '97) and a quieter and more restrained Anatoly (Janson...
...world's largest hotel-and-gaming company, with more than 650 hotels and 30 casinos from Las Vegas to Turkey to Uruguay. (Combined revenues: $8.5 billion, with ITT accounting for 77% of the total.) "This should be the merger of the century in the hotel-and-gaming industry," says Bjorn Hanson, chairman of the hospitality-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm...
...songs may prove blessedly less tenacious than ABBA hits like S.O.S. Since the band broke up, Lyngstad, who's married to Italian architect Prince Ruzzo Reuss, has worked with environmental and antidrug causes in Switzerland. Agnetha Faltskog has lived in heavily guarded seclusion in Stockholm, and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have been working on music projects. Lyngstad's not the only one resurfacing. Faltskog will publish an autobiography and greatest-hits CD this month. You've been warned...
...little debt and can borrow money more cheaply than most competitors, a considerable advantage because in Bollenbach, 54, Hilton has one of dealmaking's master players. Indeed, there's barely a major hotel company that doesn't bear his imprint. "He is the best in the hotel business," says Bjorn Hanson, head of hotel-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm. "He has demonstrated that in what he has done with Disney, Marriott and Trump. He's done something different from what anyone expected. It's just sort of a Midas touch...
...Bjorn R. Olsen, Hersey professor of anatomy and cellular biology and a member of the scientific advisory board of Organogenesis, Inc., says he has held a stock option in the company for the duration of the time he has worked for them...