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...nonfiction, not to mention such Eisenhower-era cautionary tales as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Katz's prose is competent, his dialogue serviceable and his cast of characters large and mostly faceless (although its obsessives stand out: a shopworn survivor of the executive-suite wars; a by-hook-or-by-crook booker of talk-show interviewees; and a tough, moralistic accountant...
...Washington] wants him out. They look at Kuwait as a hook to hang a number of problems," Hoffmann said. "The last thing they want is for him to withdraw with two-thirds of his army intact and him in power. Other members of the coalition want different goals...
...Freshmen Dean's Office will keep confidential registration books on hand, Taxin explained. Students will be able to exchange information about their own personal interests and habits and, hopefully, hook up with future roommates...
Some studios aren't bothering to jump on the new cost-cutting bandwagon. Columbia Pictures is now shooting Hook, a $50 million-plus Stephen Spielberg extravaganza starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts. The film's top talent will get a lavish 40% of the gross revenues. To earn a nickel for the studio, Hook will have to become one of the year's highest- grossing films. But the new management team at Columbia, led by Batman producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, is clearly confident. The company bought two French-made Falcon jets last year, even before...
...Yellow and Ambassador services owned by the Brattle Cab company, and the primarily Haitian Union Taxi company, for example, simply hook up drivers with passengers via radio for a monthly fee. Only Cambridge's Checkered Cab Company has charge of its own taxis, and even of those, about half belong to their drivers...