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Smack in the middle of northern Illinois dairy country, and about 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Harvard is a typical Midwestern farm town. Most of the 5,975 residents work on dairy farms, in tool and plastics manufacturing, or in health care. In June, Motorola Inc., the telecommunications giant, completed a cellular-phone facility, and is the town's largest employer. About 15 percent of the population is Hispanic...
...Boston Ballet: The company is based in the historic Wang Center, a facility grand enough to have hosted the infamous Quad-wide formal several years ago. It's worth going to the Wang just to see the building. Sometimes they also show old movies on a giant screen. But the Boston Ballet is also quite good. In addition to their traditional Christmas performance of "The Nutcracker" (which was completely overhauled last winter), they do innovative works. Last year they performed Shakespeare's comedy "Taming of the Shrew...
There was, in truth, plenty to be scared about. 3M (1995 sales: $13.4 billion) has long been the Ma Bell of Minnesota companies--a revered and maternalistic giant that gave the world Scotch tape and Post-It notes, where jobs for life are still a norm. The spin-off, called Imation, a $2.3 billion business that became an independent, publicly traded company last month, offered no such security. Only 3 of 4 people who worked for the new company's divisions when they were part of 3M made the move to the Imation payroll. Gone were two management layers, five...
Perhaps the best thing about being MARLON BRANDO is that no matter what fresh weirdness you engage in, nobody is shocked. So when the giant star suggested to The Island of Dr. Moreau director John Frankenheimer that Dr. Moreau should wear white gunk on his face because the ozone layer had been destroyed, Frankenheimer bought it. After all, he had agreed to take over the problem-plagued movie partly because of Brando. "He's a genius," raves Frankenheimer. "He sees things so clearly." As for Brando's famously mercurial ways (e.g., needing to be fed lines), he says...
KIDNAPPED. MAMORU KONNO, 56, Japanese president of a subsidiary of electronics giant Sanyo; in Tijuana, Mexico. Konno was abducted at gunpoint as he left an employee baseball game. Kidnappers demanded a $2 million ransom...