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Business School Dean John H. McArthur is not an easy man to reach. Responding to a reporter's persistent but polite requests for an interview with the dean, his secretary replied that her boss would be too busy--permanently--and then hung up the phone, The school's public affairs office was only slightly friendlier, if no more helpful...
...Administration to growing signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal. Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine...
...some "genetic engineering of the numbers." To nervous businessmen that sounded ominously like a another price freeze. Resende firmly denied that he has any miracle cures in mind. But if he hopes to keep his job for very long, Resende will have to move fast to placate his impatient boss and rescue his inflation-weary countrymen. For the record: over the past 25 years prices have risen...
...former top Business School administrator said yesterday that he and a colleague were unfairly forced to resign last month after a dispute with their boss...
...Boss was back with bluster intact, posing as Napoleon for a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover. Sportswriters welcomed him, for unlike the drab slumlords who run most teams, Steinbrenner is good copy: a reprobate of Dickensian, comic complexity. And like Saddam Hussein, the principal owner gets to gloat that he is in power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain themselves from...