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Can a company be just too darned big? Trustbusters and federal judges have often said so. But for the chief executive of a corporate colossus to agree sounds contrary to nature. And for said chief to insist, entirely voluntarily, on busting up his own company into three pieces--well, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST THREE EASY PIECES | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

The Proposal easily avoids such problems, churning along with a clipped and measured cadence thanks to superb acting from the suitor Lomov (Scott Richards) and the neighbor Natalya (Nada Despotovich), whom he wishes to wed. The anxious and particular Lomov succeeds unexpectedly with Natalya's father in asking for her...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Three's (Almost) A Charm for the Nora | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

Over those four years, the endowment's average annual performance was 13.7 percent. This return was two percent above the Policy Portfolio and 2.1 percent higher than the median fund as measured by TUCS.

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Endowment's Growth Rising But Middling | 9/20/1995 | See Source »

Jefferson once wrote, "There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.'' As one who has received so much from his country, I feel that debt heavily, and I can never be entirely free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY AMERICAN JOURNEY: Colin Powell | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

In a field already occupied by such established conservative journals as the National Review and the American Spectator, is there room for one more? Livelier than the Review, less bratty than the Spectator, the Standard is modeled most obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS: AND IN THIS CORNER ?THE STANDARD | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

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