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...students of the Fed see any sign of dissent from the doves. "In the old days," says economist Kevin Flanagan of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, "there was a debate over who was an influential hawk and who an influential dove." But today, Flanagan notes, any policy disagreements tend to vanish into Greenspan's carefully nurtured consensus. Concurs Fed governor Meyer, who has a reputation as a hawk's hawk on inflation: "Many members will voice some disagreement with the chairman's view in the go-rounds. But many of those will vote with the chairman...
...feel-good mystical sports drama. Will Smith attempts to flex his acting chops in a role 180 degrees from his typical July 4 weekend fare. Director Redford, no stranger to mystical sports dramas himself (The Natural), decided to give Smith and Damon a chance after deciding that he and Morgan Freeman, the original stars, were too old. The buzz is iffy-the mystical bent of the whole Bagger Vance character has audiences commenting on the film's overall "Touched By An Angel" type of feeling...
NAME: Patrick Stewart OCCUPATION: Actor and former Star Trek cult icon PUNCH: After performances of Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, denounces Broadway producers from the stage for anemic promotion of play...
What really distinguishes the biztiques, though, is the attention they lavish on guests. Doormen remember your name, and desk managers keep a record of which rooms you've stayed in and note the Champagne you prefer. Peter McKillop, director of corporate communications for J.P. Morgan in Asia, was enthralled when he heard that the hotel operator at the Lowell had intercepted an unwanted early wake-up by graciously asking a caller in Tokyo whether she realized it was 4:30 a.m. in New York City. XV Beacon supplied an interior decorator for a guest's new home in Boston...
...guests tend to stay a while. Not long after it opened this year, Boston's XV Beacon happily set aside more than a floor of suites for visiting members of a royal family from the Middle East--for six weeks. Red Adams, chairman of Oil & Gas Rental Services in Morgan City, La., stays at the Colombe d'Or on average 18 times a year. The staff is accustomed to providing Adams with ties, socks and whatever else he has neglected to pack himself. "I feel like it's my own home," says Adams...