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...last time the Crimson women failed to average a point per minute of basketball was during its 3-22 1983-84 campaign, in Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith's second year at the helm...
When Neil L. Rudenstine took the University's helm in 1991, Harvard lent him a bright yellow mansion on posh Brattle Street for free. But even though Rudenstine lives on University property without rent, he borrowed $176,000 from Harvard for a mortgage...
...atrocities of the Congo mounted, the first major human rights initiative of this century was launched with Morel at the helm. Morel had a short but impressive list of predecessors in the movement to end the killings in the Congo, starting with George Washington Williams, the first African-American member of the Ohio state legislature (as well as a prominent minister, lawyer and journalist). In a letter written to the U.S. Secretary of State, Williams wrote that Leopold's Congo was "guilty of crimes against humanity," a full half-century before the same phrase was used in the Nuremberg trials...
...giving us more of Pitt's "I-am-beautiful" campaign in an overindulgent $90 million romantic "epic." The film, interestingly enough, is directed by Martin Brest--the same man who in 1992 gave us the charming drama Scent of a Woman. But where Woman had Al Pacino at the helm and young Chris O'Donnell in the eagerbeaver supporting role, Meet Joe Black reverses this buddy-buddy formula. Here, Anthony Hopkins is demoted to a supporting role and Pitt becomes the leading man. This odd conception of the roles proves fatal: Pitt can't carry the burden and Hopkins...
...your favorite CEO really in charge? Sandy Weill has engineered a tenfold stock gain while at the helm of Travelers Group and its predecessor companies since the mid-'80s. But last month Travelers merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup. Weill now serves as co-CEO with John Reed in an unwieldy structure that is slowing the integration of the two companies and frustrating top deputies. Underscoring that point, Weill protege and presumed heir Jamie Dimon was forced to resign last week. The co-CEO thing won't last, and my bet is that Weill will emerge...