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...ever an American composer was worthy of such thorough examination, surely Joplin is. His great accomplishment was to refine and perfect a kind of protojazz called ragtime. He did not invent it: black musicians along the Mississippi had long been syncopating, or "ragging," the rhythm of such forms as the march and the two-step, and Joplin was not even the first to publish a rag. But in his hands the nascent genre was quickly transformed into something worthy of the concert hall. Joplin's rags, beginning with the sprightly Original Rags and ending with the autumnal, resigned Magnetic...
Bruce Bent and Henry Brown, renegades from the insurance industry, come to Wall Street and invent the money-market fund in 1970. Jim Benham, a California < broker, has the same idea simultaneously. It takes the SEC two years to approve this...
...though, the Katzenberg era at Disney -- one of phenomenal growth, an eerie stability and that amazing revival of the precious cartoon heritage -- has ended. Oh well, as the Lion King would say, hakuna matata. Not to worry. Eisner will reinvent his company, and soon, perhaps, Katzenberg will invent his own. For the moment, he's in the hot seat. His former colleague -- and future competitor -- is sitting in the Katzenberg seat...
...appalled to see Ms. Carrier attack both Miller and his candidacy for the Harvard University Board of Overseers. In what was amusingly labeled a "news" profile, Ms. Carrier seemed to pick and choose her facts at will--ignoring the positives and accentuating the negatives--in an effort to invent a story where none existed...
...Dallas, the hit man he has been impatiently awaiting. And if Michael had been a little less desperate he might not have pocketed the cash. But then, if people were in general a little less stupid and and a lot less greedy, there would have been no need to invent film noir in the first place...