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...Burger for 17 years as Chief Justice of the United States never really disguised the fact that underneath he was an exuberant prairie yeoman--and proud of it. After a few sips of one of his fine clarets, Burger, who died last week at the age of 87, would lean back and reminisce about his rearing in the mold of the Horatio Alger stories, where young boys never rested, tried everything, excelled at much and took joy at each simple turn in a life on the land. He recalled the hot summer workdays near St. Paul, Minnesota, when he would...
...seller in a seller's market; the studios want his clients and will pay hugely for them. As MCA czar, he would have been a buyer in that market. The fellow who helped jack up the price of the product would now be asked to run a lean, mean company. It's like putting the mice in charge of the pantry...
...entertainment world, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1970 graduates are few, but their contributions are significant. There is an Emmy award-winning actress, a producer/manager of multiple Tony award-winning Broadway shows including "The Secret Garden," the producer of the films "Lean on Me" and "Colors," an actress from the popular Fox network television show "Beverly Hills 90210" and the musical orchestrator for the Walt Disney animated films "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin" and the soon-to-be-released "Pocahontas...
...discovery through the eyes of four American kids." Holsinger is thankful for her fellow classmates' help in her project: "You want to see how your piece reads with your audience. Throughout the editing process, you need to keep showing it to other people. In that way, you really do lean on your classmates...
...like these people are disaster groupies who aren't doing productive stuff. They're like the Partridge family," Kluttz says. "Sometimes I'd just lean over and say `Didn...