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...cannot ignore the whiff of a double standard here. After all, it was Bryant Gumbel who wrote the nasty memo about his co-workers at Today, but it was Pauley who had to watch her heir apparent being groomed on the couch next to her. Norville too was probably treated unfairly in the press. Would a man in the same position have been so rudely characterized as a conniving climber? And why, some may wonder, does Harry Smith, the competent but colorless male half of the CBS This Morning team, get to stay on while Sullivan is forced to dust...
Cleary does have everything that the University is looking for in an heir to Reardon. But Reardon will be the first to tell you that there are new controversies for Cleary to mediate, new issues that will have to be faced...
...Canadian consortium formed to invest in Eastern Europe purchased half the General Banking & Trust Co. of Budapest, the city's oldest bank, for $10 million. American cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder is the chairman of the group, the Central Europe Development Corp...
FRANK MORGAN: MOOD INDIGO (Antilles). Once touted as Charlie Parker's heir apparent, alto saxman Frank Morgan seemingly blew it all on a life of hard drugs, thievery and frequent jail terms. Released from prison in 1985, Morgan, now 56, launched a storybook comeback -- of which this outstanding album is the latest chapter. Ably joined on two tracks by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Morgan's soulful, driving sax proves that for a battle-scarred jazz veteran, playing well is the best revenge...
...reigning Empress Elisabeth was half mad or, as Bettelheim more clinically describes her, "hysterical, narcissistic, and anorexic." And the heir apparent, Crown Prince Rudolf, climaxed a sexual episode by killing both his mistress and himself. Yet this was also the era of The Blue Danube. Bettelheim's conclusion: "Things had never been better, but at the same time they had never been worse; this strange simultaneity, in my opinion, explains why psychoanalysis, based on the understanding of ambivalence, hysteria, and % neurosis, originated in Vienna and probably could have originated nowhere else...