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According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the number of men seeking cosmetic correction has increased 35% in the past two years. They often cite professional image and job marketability as the reasons for smoothing creases or trimming jowls. Explains Dr. Melvyn Dinner, director of the Center for Plastic Surgery in Cleveland: "The 40-year-old who has lost his job is competing with a young hotshot. It's the competitive demand to look youthful...
...Melvyn Weiss, a Manhattan lawyer who has spearheaded many of the liability suits, contends that the accounting profession "is suffering for its own failure to deliver on its promise to protect society from fraud." Agrees Price Water...
...Barney and Salomon Bros., which enthusiastically sold the Whoops bonds. They are accused of withholding crucial information about the agency's deteriorating finances. Even Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poors were hauled into court because they gave the bonds high ratings. "They are all responsible," says Melvyn Weiss, one of the lawyers representing bondholders...
...anti-Semitism runs so deeply that they distinguish between Russian mathematics and Jewish mathematics," says Melvyn B. Nathanson, dean of the graduate school of Rutgers University in New Jersey and a widely noted authority on Soviet mathematics. What this means, explains the dean, is that Jews have found it increasingly difficult to gain admission to undergraduate and graduate programs in math and earn advanced degrees, as well as finding it "almost impossible" to obtain academic position...
...reticent oboist, encouraging him to play a phrase more grandly. "Bass drum, diminuendo, a little less all the way through," he will call out to an enthusiastic percussionist. Levine rarely raises his voice, preferring to maintain a relaxed but efficient atmosphere. "He's cool," says Trumpeter Melvyn Broiles. "I've never seen him flip out. He doesn't blow his top." Even at pressure-filled moments, such as the dress rehearsal of the Met's new production of Verdi's Macbeth recently, Levine maintains his equanimity. When backstage noise threatened to drown out the singers...