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...recent months Josephson has conducted seminars for such diverse groups as the New York State Bar Association, Levi Strauss & Co. and the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. In January he spent eight days in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., teaching 55 senior executives of the Internal Revenue Service, who in turn will pass on what they have learned to the agency's 14,000 managers. Alaska asked him to draft a model ethics bill last year that is still pending in the state's legislature, and Tennessee is considering its own reforms based on the Alaska model...
Walter Haas had plenty to spend; he is an heir to the Levi Strauss jeans fortune. He also had a resilient young pitching staff and a local rabbit named Rickey Henderson. To nurture the team to respectability, though, he needed a quick fix and a long view. He already had the first in Billy Martin, a brilliant, volatile field manager. Before he wore out both his welcome and the arms of his starting pitchers (all were shortly out of the majors), Martin , hustled the A's to the play-offs in 1981 and, with his run-and-gun style...
Young women wearing Levi's jeans and sweaters--like students in Harvard Square--can be seen carrying Uzis with groups of friends. It is customary in Israel for one member in a group of off-duty soldiers to be armed. Some of the best military historians in the world reside in Israel--at Hebrew and at Tel Aviv Universities. Indeed many of the worlds experts on blitzkrieg, tank warfare and the Wermacht, live there. And Karl Von Clauswitz's military treatise is displayed prominently at Tel Aviv University bookstore...
Spike Lee does Nike, GAP, and Levi's advertisments, has started a company to market merchandise based on his films and has spent over a million dollars for a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. None of these actions, by themselves, are objects of condemnation. But when a person declares, as Lee has done, that he doesn't care about mainstream Hollywood and strongly implies that he is above petty commericial interests, such actions begin to to take on the aura of self-indulgent hypocrisy. Lee's latest work, Mo' Better Blues, has a similar air about...
Wilson also awarded the first Levi Prize yesterday to Jacqueline Sloan '90, a social studies concentrator from Toledo, Ohio. The prize was established this year to recognize the undergraduate women who has "demonstrated the best combination of talent and energy with an oustanding enthusiasm for musical theater and for Radcliffe...