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...There was the crack of a single rifle shot fired from the wood and the bald man who was holding me took the bullet right through his face. It was a horrible sight. His head seemed to splash open and little soft bits of grey stuff flew out in all directions." Younger readers may be astonished that this graphic recollection comes from the author of durable children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Admirers of Roald Dahl's "grownup" ^ stories (Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch) should not be surprised. The passage, which appears in the second installment of Dahl...
...movie Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty played an angelic corporate kingpin who proposes that his firm, Exo-Grey, shut down a profitable refinery because it might pollute the local environment. This was not just common sense, the Beatty character told his astonished board of directors, but good business as well, for the firm would profit from a dazzling image of social responsibility. While not all real-life businessmen would agree with that kind of thinking, it has spawned success for a small but rapidly growing group of socially conscious investment funds. About half a dozen of these mutual funds...
Wearing a grey jacket complete with his trademark shoulder pads, Byrne signed books, records, and other paraphernalia for an hour and a half to promote his new book, "True Stories," which was adapted from a motion picture of the same name...
Adriana R. Rizzo '86, who has an entry-levelposition at Grey Advertising, in New York, foundher job on her own. She says "Only two ad agenciesshowed up for recruiting, so I went to OCS, pulledout folders and wrote a lot of letters...
Bonfires dotting the night. Huddled, grey-garbed figures half-obscured by darkness. Sleeping bags everywhere. Puddles of gas and beer and piles of discarded pizza boxes...