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Some industry experts thought that Smith was justified in driving Perot away. Said Bernard Addo, an auto analyst for Manhattan's Argus Research: Perot may have been a skillful entrepreneur, but entrepreneurship and team management are two different things. Perot was hurting GM's stock by publicly bashing the company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status...
...singer owns an apartment in Manhattan, an estate in Rumson, N.J., and a home in Los Angeles. But he apparently disdains yachts, private jets and most of the trappings of the super-rich. At the Los Angeles recording session for We Are the World last year, as the other rock stars were arriving with their entourages in limousines, Springsteen strolled up alone. The Boss had flown in from a concert in Syracuse and rented a car at the airport...
...been a typically mellow day at Manhattan's New School for Social Research for Bill Zanker, 26, who was cruising through a master's program in filmmaking. Then came a surprise phone summons from his father for lunch. When they met, Dad's message...
Does she or doesn't she? The fashionable answer nowadays is always a louder and louder yes. From Manhattan to Los Angeles, a sunburst of bold, exotic and decidedly unnatural colors is streaking, squiggling and dotting across the hairstyles of the nation's trendy younger set, and even making inroads among more mature professionals. The startling palette of reds and blues, golds and silvers, greens and purples comes from inexpensive temporary hair-coloring products that are easily applied at home and almost as easily showered away. Confrontational coloration, once a shocking British and American punk emblem, is now celebrated...
Three years ago, the nation's most infamous child-molestation case erupted in the Los Angeles suburb of Manhattan Beach. Seven teachers and administrators at the prestigious McMartin Preschool would eventually be indicted on hundreds of counts of child sexual abuse. There were tales of drugs, bondage and the mutilation of animals...