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...some have asked if Rudenstine has realized what he needs from a provost. It was Carnesale the man, the decision-maker, who made the provostship what it is, and with the dynamic of Carnesale-Rudenstine hinging so much on their respective leadership styles, it is unclear if Fineberg, while having mastered the fiefdom, can be co-majesty of the kingdom...
...Bespectacled and slightly paunchy, "DeSilva" liked to dance with his shirt off, treat large groups to dinner with cash and boast about his family's sugar plantation in the Philippines. He lived high, but no one seemed to know how he managed it. "Everyone knew Andrew," says one scene-maker. "He was a very outgoing, fun guy. There was a kind of patheticness about him, because good-looking gold diggers were drawn to him. But I never saw him in a bad mood." In late April, DeSilva/Cunanan told friends he was leaving town, starting with a trip to Minneapolis...
OPEN HANDERS At the highest level of corporate conscience are companies such as Ben & Jerry's and Tom's of Maine, a maker of toothpaste and other personal-care products. Ben & Jerry's gives away a stunning 7.5% of its pretax profits and goes to great lengths to buy from minority or disadvantaged suppliers. (The company's earnings fell last year as sales of superpremium ice cream dipped; for the recent first quarter, Ben & Jerry's reported a $1.06 million loss.) Detractors call such contracts posturing and note that Ben & Jerry's has been fighting a lawsuit by a minority...
...some spots a counterrevolution has begun. "People became so overloaded they didn't use it," says Silicon Valley consultant Anita Rosen about the E-mail system at computer-software-maker Oracle, where she worked for years. "Out of 300 E-mails, 80% were CCs. So maybe what you actually need to know are 40 E-mails a day, or an hour's work." At the White House, E-mail is so overloaded that many senior staff members refuse...
...toast of the SoHo fashion scene but unknown on the Avenue Montaigne when he took over Givenchy two years ago. A year later, Arnault moved him to Dior and plucked Alexander McQueen--even cheekier and younger, at 27--to guide the fortunes of Givenchy. At Louis Vuitton, a maker of fancy luggage and handbags that dates to 1854, he has hired an American, the young sportswear designer Marc Jacobs, to create a line of bags and sportswear to take on the chic of Gucci and Prada. Jacobs should give Vuitton a high and profitable fashion profile--what he was hired...