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Members of Kremer’s section—a group of about 90 students in his class at HBS—and their section chair, Senior Associate Dean Janice H. Hammond, have organized several events to achieve their goals. They arranged a Valentine’s Day fund-raiser in February and hosted an online auction, which ended last week...
...production is just about as spare as possible; those twangy guitars are sometimes accompanied by hip-swinging bass or, on the excellent second track “The Luckiest Girl,” some cool Hammond Organ grooves, but the star of the show is always the leading lady’s voice. And a limited, small instrument it is; like Billie Holiday, Golightly’s singing respects its own limitations. But, also like the late Lady Day, Golightly’s strengths within that small vocal range shine unexpectedly brightly. The sound is sexy and sultry, weary...
...irony that the world's best international basketball scout is also the world's worst student of foreign languages is not lost on Ronzone's peers. "He can't speak any language at all," laughs John Hammond, the Pistons' vice president of basketball operations. "Yet he travels to these obscure places and builds lasting relationships with all kinds of people. It's amazing." Adds Donn Nelson, the president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks and one of Ronzone's old friends: "Tony's success is a tribute to his personality. He's just--I guess the word is unembarrassable...
...basketball in his train-wreck sentences. More often than not, they talk back. In Kazakhstan, a conversation with a hotel bellman led to the discovery of three raw but promising players at a club team. "Tony talks a lot, and that gets him into these places," says the Pistons' Hammond. "But he's also a very bright guy, and that shows up once he's inside...
...your case, one drawer of house-sale information isn't so bad, and the lawyers and accountants I consulted tell me you have saved pretty much the bare minimum. "I'd advise holding on to all of it, even though it sounds compulsive," counsels Celeste Hammond, director of the Center for Real Estate Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Why would you need records from houses long vacated? Taxes. In 1997 the Taxpayer Relief Act changed how home sales are taxed. Before that date, you could roll over your profit into your next residence--and your next...