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...radio or TV. It's hardly oratory or storytelling; nevertheless Howard's words, gestures and images stick. Why? Few editors or producers share his understanding of their mediums; none can match his cultural memory or knowledge of the audience. So Howard shapes the agenda. Not only does Howard devour the product, he is the product. The P.M. is the message...
...available to undergraduates. Trips to Bermuda, World Tours, intercessions spent skiing in Vail, performances in major motion pictures—these marks of unspeakable privilege stand in stark contrast to the opportunities afforded to most other student organizations. As other groups scrounge for space, all-male a cappella groups devour rooms for their rehearsals. One even has a posh clubhouse to use as its home base. While most Harvard students socialize in overcrowded dorm rooms drinking cheap liquor out of brightly colored Solo cups, a cappella group members hobnob with the rich and famous at the finest restaurants in Boston...
...with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really excited...
...runs the German operations for the Blackstone Group, the big U.S. buyout firm. Blackstone isn't exactly a household name in Germany. But this spring, a top German politician named Franz Müntefering likened Blackstone and other private-equity groups to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies and devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," said Müntefering, who is chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and who promised to fight against what he called this "anonymous, faceless" form...
...personality clashes within the Administration, however true, turn out to be footnotes. The vaunted foreign people eaters, such as Canada's Pierre Trudeau, West Germany's Helmut Schmidt and now the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, have marched one by one into Reagan's presence. None managed to devour him. Instead they have, to a man and woman, emerged with varying degrees of respect and affection...