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Joan Kennedy is a woman whose warmth and charm would have shone in almost any field of life. She has taught in public school and performed a Mozart piano concerto and read Peter and the Wolf with the Boston Symphony. Says one Bostonian who knows her well: "There isn't anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good." But public life has not been kind to Joan Kennedy. Its wounds can be seen in the puffy eyes, the exaggerated makeup, the tales of alcoholism. Today she is a sadly vulnerable soul and an unknown factor...
...Haven't there been some changes? Isn't it a fact that blacks may now own their homes in Soweto, rather than lease them from the government...
...conference room on the sixth floor at 70 Federal Street in the heart of Boston's financial district where a dozen investment specialists gather at 10:45 every morning. It looks just like those corporate board-rooms you've seen in countless movies, except the rectangular table isn't as big as you remember, the chairs aren't as tall...
Stevens agrees that HMC's set-up helps keep talented managers. But, he says, "There's a possible disadvantage in not having the flexibility to decide that someone--no matter how much time they're spending--isn't doing a good job. It's a different kind of decision to say to someone, 'We don't like you and we're going to fire you,' than to tell a company, 'We're going to move to a different company...
...University draws 29 per cent of its income from student tuition, 26 per cent from government funding of research and financial aid, 14 per cent from gifts, and 21 per cent from income on the endowment. The government isn't increasing much, and the endowment remains the same--so students find themselves making up the balance, Putnam says. "We hope the securities market will do well enough to carry its own share," he adds...