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...Herbert J. Vallier knows what he's up against...
...much is at stake in the world of government that it's hard to accept that anyone deserves a second chance; why not "one strike and you're out?" Jimmy Carter never got another chance--he had to make his name on the international stage. Luckily, Herbert Hoover didn't get one either...
...Herbert J. Vallier has taken over as the department's top administrator, and he is cleaning house. Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling is gone--after what associates describe as an "illness" (and, sources say, some Vallier pushing...
...could certainly gain immense quality and repertoire from a music director of Haitink's skills. It's true that Seiji Ozawa hasn't been talking about retirement, but Haitink gave the orchestra glimpses of Herbert von Karaian's Berlin Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber's Vienna Philharmonic and George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra. If they could also strengthen their sound with a few more powerful players, the BSO would catapult itself back to the stature it knew under Charles Munch--that of the foremost symphony in the nation...
This story actually begins with an edgy, brainy nerd named Herbert Stempel (wonderfully played by John Turturro), who was a steady winner on Twenty- One. The trouble was that white-bread America couldn't identify with him. Enter Van Doren (played a little too stiffly by Ralph Fiennes), trying to pick up a few dollars to supplement his instructor's pay at Columbia University. He was a godsend. Not just any old Wasp, but the scion of arguably the nation's most distinguished literary family. His father was Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer- prizewinning poet and scholar; his mother...