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Philip Roth, however, is one of the literary masters most attentive to the body. He has written lovingly about its lusts (Portnoy's Complaint), its decrepitude (The Dying Animal) and the intersection of the two (a ribald graveside scene in Sabbath's Theater). In his slim, stark novel Everyman (Houghton Mifflin; 182 pages), about the life and (mostly) death of an unnamed adman, Roth plays the body's trump card: someday it will die and take the mind with...
...Houghton suffered a near-fatal pedestrian accident in 1993, but stayed at the helm of Corning for three more years before making his first retirement...
During the past four years, Houghton made fast and dramatic changes to the company’s structure, closing more than a dozen plants and cutting the number of employees almost in half—moves that revived the use of his unflattering nickname, “Dark Angel...
...Houghton defended the changes in a 2003 interview, noting that “laying somebody off is...a nasty process...
When he stepped down in 1996, Houghton said, “I just figured after 13 years that this was the time...