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...course, one need not go back that far to see the mind of the Corporation at work. The Renaissance scholar and humane listener Neil L. Rudenstine, who, as one critic put it, “acted like a dean,” and whose capacity for deference made him seem a pushover to many (he wasn’t), was succeeded by the tough talking and tough acting Lawrence H. Summers, whose advent was described as “a new sheriff in town.” If the Corporation behaves true to form, it will be looking...
...seeking to have as one of the first acts of the new Democratic Senate a nonbinding resolution condemning a troop increase in Iraq. Others want action, not just words. On the presidential side of the party, Hillary Clinton has gone at breakneck speed from being a mild critic of the war to calling for a legislated troop cap and threatening to cut off funds for the Iraqi army. Obama and John Edwards are cheerfully one-upping her by demanding a firm schedule for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. What happened...
Perot's sudden resignation from the GM board and from the chairmanship of EDS created an instant uproar and raised new uncertainties about the future of the troubled company. Wall Streeters questioned the economic wisdom of GM's paying so much money to jettison an in-house critic. Pundits quipped that Smith had paid a hefty "ransom" to free himself from his adversary?a reference to last week's revelations of Perot's financial support for National Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile...
Unlike such contemporaries as Renoir, Whistler and Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas (1834--1917) has inspired few legends and has never come to seem larger than life or as colorful as his art. In Edgar Degas: Life and Work (Rizzoli; 343 pages; $70), British Critic Denys Sutton shows why such comparative obscurity would have suited his subject perfectly. Degas was a reserved, withdrawn soul who poured most of his energies into painting and drawing. There were rumors that the artist, a life-long bachelor, did not care much for women. The evidence, Sutton decides, is inconclusive. But look at the pictures...
...opinion. They expect that after decades of acclaim as a craftsman, Neil Simon may finally come to be regarded as an artist. Says John Randolph, who plays Simon's grandfather in Broadway Bound: "It was classic, that opening night in Washington. He spent all these years waiting for some critic to recognize that he is a major, important, serious playwright, which this play proves. And as soon as he had a copy of a review saying that, he was absolutely overcome...