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...successful electronics company, had enough vision for everybody. Other men had swapped complex packages of securities in their companies to stitch together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions, but they were eager to advance him money. They wanted to believe...
...bursting into toothy, malicious glee. Given a riding crop, he might be the head of an old Hollywood studio rather than the ruler of a realm. An oddly placid Colleen Dewhurst makes Gertrude seem more the painted than the panting queen. Barnard Hughes' Polonius is the traditional chalk-dust didactician, but Kitty Winn's mad scene does not come a moment too soon for an Ophelia who makes one wonder what Hamlet ever...
Twelve years ago, when Shanker's United Federation of Teachers emerged from a gaggle of 106 teacher groups in New York City, the mere idea of a teachers' union made school administrators squeak like chalk on blackboard. Many teachers themselves had doubts about belonging to such an organization. But the financial record of the UFT, which Shanker expanded from 2,400 to 90,000 members, has erased many of those doubts...
...Sachsel is moving on to another job where, coincidentally of course, his boss is a white male. Though the court ruled that he is owed the 40 hours' leave he used to prepare his case, there was no clear victory for either side. As they say at EEOC, chalk up another blow for brotherhood...
...Kentucky Derby. All too often, that kind of early foot fades long before the call to the post at Churchill Downs. Not so with Riva Ridge. The handsome bay colt was the logical favorite in everyone's winter book, and he has remained the choice of the chalk players ever since. He will make the run for the roses this week as one of the hottest favorites in the Derby's 98-year history...