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...pioneer in higher education, Gray was the first female president of a major research university, leading the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993. She also served as Northwestern University’s dean of the college, and as Yale’s provost and acting president. Gray spent six years on Harvard’s Board of Overseers, and is the only person ever to serve on both the Corporation and the Yale Corporation...
...when it's time for a drink, well, Chicago knows how to tend bar. You could visit the historic Berghoff on West Adams Street and the Coq d'Or in the Drake Hotel, the first two bars to tap a legal keg after Prohibition ended. But if you have time to leave the business district, head up to West Randolph's up-and-coming restaurant row to see how Gen X yuppies indulge themselves. You will also find them at the spacey Ghost Bar upstairs from Nine, Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff's new restaurant...
...Green Dolphin Street for jazz. Natives flock to Rosa's Lounge, a blues haven northwest of downtown run by Tony Rosa and his mother. You may not end up dancing in the streets, as Matthew Broderick's character did, but a few hours of R. and R. in Chicago will certainly feel like...
MERCEDES MARTINEZ Chicago...
Schwartz, of course, has been wrong--spectacularly, embarrassingly so. On Aug. 1, 1990, he had dinner with a Chicago CEO and client who asked whether reports of the Iraqi army massing on the border with Kuwait were anything to worry about. "Don't think twice about it," replied Schwartz, who had worked long enough in the oil industry for Shell to be familiar with Iraqi saber rattling. The next day Kuwait was invaded, and Schwartz "looked like an idiot," he concedes. "I applied an old mental map to a new situation and failed to force myself to be imaginative...