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...medical establishment." Yet the need to buck up Stewart's new book with a sensational subtitle is understandable. In his 1991 best seller, Den of Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions and an abundance of low animal cunning...
Even from a stage well out of the limelight, Drabinsky, 49, fiercely maintains his innocence. "I was absolutely steamrolled into the U.S. justice system," he told TIME, in his first U.S. interview since his legal woes began. "I want the rhetoric to be stripped away and the truth to emerge, and it will." Though he declined to answer specific charges on the advice of his attorney (who was present during the interview), Drabinsky claims in general that he was too busy running the company's creative affairs to pay much attention to the books. "It's not humanly possible that...
Life behind the scenes has its merits, I suppose, but deep down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...
...back the power of his office. Universitypresidents are not what they used to be--either ininfluence and prestige or in academic status.Their roles have become more administrative innature. Rudenstine matches the new profile--a goodfacilitator, a personable individual but withoutthe desire to bring Harvard to the center of thenational limelight...
Acherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman stepped into the limelight only at the end of spring semester...