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...Just as there are shadings in style -- Haitian merengue, for example, has a heavier African inflection -- there are differences among people whose musical tastes can be as vehement as their politics. "The trouble with Dominicans is they don't know how to dance," grumps a Puerto Rican music-business entrepreneur in New York City. But the numbers are against...
...great entrepreneur became the great benefactor. With the establishment of the Wang Institute and gifts to Harvard, Chinatown and the Boston community at large, he says he is giving back to the communities and institutions that have given so much to him. The circle is now complete...
...Carver history, as he sees it, occurred in 1931, when his father moved his family, his wife and four children, including the youngest, Phillip, 13, from Nashville to Memphis. George Carver, an eminently respectable lawyer, had been "deceived and nearly financially ruined" by his business association with a Nashville entrepreneur. Old-fashioned honor demanded a move to a place where the innocent man could start all over again. The son, grown middle-aged, remains fixed in his opinion of this event: "I thought Father had ruined all our lives, except...
...working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace of mischief. "No one has so far." The Hungarian entrepreneur, however, has had no trouble calculating the commercial potential of his new gizmo, which is about to go on sale in the U.S. for $10. "All the people who liked the Cube will like Magic," predicts Rubik. "And there's a whole generation of young people who didn...
...being kicked off in Dallas. The city is seeking businesses and community groups to underwrite the future college tuitions of some 1,000 local sixth graders, most of them blacks from poor sections of the city. To help launch the project, the man who inspired it, New York City Entrepreneur Eugene Lang, was squired through a two-day round of banquets and tributes by Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. Five years ago, Lang promised the 61 sixth graders at his former elementary school in Harlem that he would help pay the college tuition for every one of them...