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...DIED. Morton Downey, 83, singer known as the "Irish thrush" (though he was U.S.-born) for his high, silvery tenor, who was one of radio's most popular and best-paid stars in the 1930s and '40s on The Camel Quarter Hour and The Coke Club, and later became a wealthy businessman who hobnobbed with socialites and top Democrats, notably the Kennedys; in Palm Beach...
...C.L.S. adherents had formed a network that now has about 400 members. Its annual conference today attracts roughly 1,000 participants. Proponents hold positions at some of the nation's most prestigious legal institutions, including Stanford and George-town. But with three of the best-known crits--Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz and Roberto Unger--among those on its 64-member faculty, Harvard has become the leading C.L.S. center. "The battle is fiercer here than elsewhere," says Kennedy, who jokingly refers to himself and the others as "the unholy triumvirate." Less a coherent philosophy than an angle of inquiry, C.L.S...
...needed to break into the black. (A full-page, four-color ad now costs $31,000, compared with $75,000 for a black-and-white page in the Wall Street Journal.) "The challenge facing USA Today is to get the circulation to 2 million or above," says John Morton, a newspaper analyst at Lynch, Jones & Ryan, a securities firm in Washington. "Gannett has established there is a market for the paper. Now the question is, is it going to be a market that is profitable...
Three Terriers, Laura Morton, Alyssa Trudel, and Lindsay Lewis, scored four goals each, as Harvard demonstrated both ongoing problems in its defense and a capacity to maintain resolve while on the bottom of a wide margin...
Among the crucial bits of advice they get: "What works in China may not work in America, and vice versa," says Morton, 37. U.S. managers tend to air problems publicly and resolve them through collaboration, whereas Chinese managers--accustomed to hierarchical reporting structures--prefer to handle conflict privately, so that no one loses face. Crimson's companies tap ethnic-Chinese executives trained in international business practices to manage the work forces there. Along with financial payoffs, Ho gets the satisfaction of carrying on his father's legacy. "He always wanted to link the U.S. and China in a positive...