Word: edgar
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Shortly after he took over as chairman of Delaware-based E.I. Du Pont de Nemours two years ago, Edgar Woolard called a meeting of his company's 325 top managers at Palm Beach, Fla. Looking out at a roomful of white men, peppered with fewer than a dozen women and minorities, the new boss delivered a stunning ultimatum. The next time Du Pont's managers gathered, Woolard said, he'd better see significantly more women and minorities in the room. Last March, when Woolard and 390 executives attended the company's leadership conference in Chantilly, Va., 25% of those present...
Illinois GOP Secretary of State Jim Edgar led Neil Hartigan narrowly in Illinois...
...VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by Dominick Argento. Encouraging news for American composers. This 1976 work, one of the finest American operas ever, gets a new production from the Chicago Lyric Opera. Through...
PHILADELPHIA FIRE by John Edgar Wideman...
Limelight suited John Edgar Wideman, a former University of Pennsylvania basketball star and Rhodes scholar who became a novelist once heralded as the "black Faulkner." But in 1976 the light began to darken. Wideman's younger brother Robert was convicted as an accomplice to a murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten years later, the writer's 16- year-old son Jacob stabbed a camping companion to death and, like his uncle, was given a life term...