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...NIGHT A FEW MONTHS AGO, Carl Alfarano returned to his Westchester, New York, home after work to discover that he had just missed a visit from two private detectives. They told his wife they wanted his help with a "personality sketch" of Alfarano's old friend Jeffrey Wigand. The pair claimed they had come in person only because they did not have Alfarano's telephone number--something Alfarano insists is not true. "I found it rather unnerving," says Alfarano, who worked with Wigand at two medical-device companies in the 1980s and who gave the men no information. But when...
...evening's centerpiece was Carl Maria von Weber's Bassoon Concerto in F Major, a piece which even the concert program admitted "lacks something in originality." At best, the concerto is lively and clever, taking advantage of the bassoon's peculiar, step-like dexterity; the third movement's themes are almost jolly. But at other times it's hard to tell whether the composer intended what sound like humorous effects; the second movement's creeping themes were reminiscent of the Pink Panther's sly theme song. Similarly, the soloist's first entries in the first movement are preceded by total...
This semester's fellows are Rogers; Carl Anthony, director of the Urban Habitat Program; former Senator Wyche Fowler, Jr. (D-Geo.); Leslie Goodman, who has served as deputy chief of communications under California Gov. Pete Wilson; Bruce Herschensohn, the GOP nominee for a 1992 California Senate race and Lynn R. Williams, former president of United Steelworkers of America...
AFTER READING YOUR REPORT ON CARL Lindner, the Chiquita Brands banana tycoon who showers money on members of Congress to get favorable free-market trade for bananas [BUSINESS, Jan. 22], I have concluded that the U.S. is not a democracy. In a democracy the people rule through their elected representatives: one man, one vote. Not so in the U.S. (or in any number of other countries). The basic idea is more like: $10,000, one vote! The electorate chooses certain people. These then go on to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing what certain companies and associations want...
...Cortege," a book of poetry written by Carl Phillips '81, has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award...