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...measure of how much arts leaders misjudged the effectiveness of such tactics that after two years of denouncing NEA chairman John Frohnmayer as a sellout for his attempts to placate the right wing, last week they were mourning his forced resignation and envisioning his heir as sure to be worse. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "If President Bush got a message in New Hampshire, we did too." A chilling sign for arts leaders is that some liberals now join in doubting whether government should finance ideas. It was the talk of Washington...
...COMMUNISTS. Following the failed coup last August, Yeltsin punished the Communist Party by banning it on Russian territory and confiscating its vast property. Nine new groups claim to be the party's heir. Their leaders are generally little-known former functionaries or true believers; they draw much of their support from party bureaucrats who have lost their status, privileges and often their jobs. The new communist parties have also found allies in trade-union officials who fear that market reform will lead to factory closures and mass unemployment...
...arrangement was supposed to be cut and dried, even ironclad. Not only did it designate Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. the sole heir to Steve Ross as head of Time Warner Inc. The 1989 merger agreement that created the world's largest media company also spelled out the date of his accession -- five years in advance. As of 1994, Ross, while remaining chairman, would step aside as co- chief executive officer, and president Nicholas would become the sole...
...were gigantic. But then Meier, 57, is rather gloriously anachronistic -- and high-minded and portentous -- himself. While most of his peers have spent the past two decades feverishly inventing (or capitulating to) a sometimes gimcrack neo-neoclassicism, Meier has remained an unrepentant circa-1927 Corbusian -- modernism's last best heir. "I don't think you change your values every day or every time you do a new building," he says. "If you are worried about style or what is the trend of the moment, you are in trouble...
Nelson grew up on Park Avenue, heir to a frozen-food business in Brooklyn. In my brother's class at school, he acted richer than the other rich kids and was known more as a snappy dresser than a brain. Math was particularly tough for him -- an F in ninth grade and a D+ that summer; a C in 10th-grade algebra, but an F in geometry. In the 11th grade he pulled math up to C and C- (matching steady Cs in English), but failed citizenship. ("And that would eliminate. . .," his American history teacher paused, in a lecture about...