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Smith, a former Stanford professor of arts and former Bunting fellow at Radcliffe, is a renowned playwright and actress. Her plays--Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992--are unique one-performer shows in which she herself takes on the identities of numerous characters...
...dumped James Robinson III for turning the company into an unwieldy financial supermarket. Golub promptly lopped off the brokerage, investment-banking and life-insurance units that Robinson had assembled, leaving American Express focused on credit cards, travel and financial services, including mutual funds. Golub, a sometimes abrasive native of Brooklyn, N.Y., initially slashed $2 billion out of a $13.4 billion cost structure, and has kept expenses in line with sales growth through such moves as downsizing the work force and streamlining procedures...
...always told I was undesirable for one reason or another," he says. "I got to the United States, and I expected there would be some of the same because I was an immigrant. And there wasn't." From his spot in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, where he was housed by an aunt and uncle who had left Hungary in the '30s, Grove devoured Eisenhower's America...
...Thursday, the 69-year-old Gigante entered the Brooklyn courtroom well dressed, and without the wheelchair he had used during his four-week July trial. Knowing the Chin, the 21st century could find him jogging in Central Park...
IZABEL LAM INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Brooklyn, N.Y. 1996 REVENUES $2.5 million MARKETS All continents...