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...Penelope Muse Abernathy, 50, who became publisher of HBR in 1999, also served as publisher of Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), HBR’s parent organization. Her resignation follows “a reorganization that has discontinued the divisional structure of the company,” according to a written statement released Monday by HBSP...
...much brand recognition? Sony must think so. It sued Austrian wholesaler Time Tron for using "Walkman" to describe rival products, but Austria's top court ruled the term was too universal to be owned by any one firm. Please, No Equitygate H Private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst is hiring former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to help it build a European strategy. Hey, it worked for Nixon. Aggressive Treatment It might be time for the drug industry to pop an anti-anxiety pill. Twenty-nine U.S. states sued Bristol-Myers Squibb, alleging it blocked cheaper versions...
...comedy a young man's game, like skateboarding or sex? Writing jokes, creating droll characters--these take ambition, ingenuity and energy, and after decades of devotion to this voracious muse, a fellow can get pooped. He still knows the rhythms (ba-da-dum or ba-da-bing) but has run out of witty variations. He's vamping, working from the Catskills version of muscle memory. His obsession is just a job; he's confecting comedy not from inspiration but from habit...
...race movie "Broken Strings," well directed by western-movie specialist Bernard B. Ray, Muse is a violin virtuoso who turns bitter when he loses use of his left hand and is reduced to teaching the instrument he can no longer play. Muse's Arthur Williams is part Svengali, part Phantom of the Opera, and a big part any adult frustrated by the seeming lack of dedication the young bring to their studies. It's the rare film, for black or white audiences, in which good people can seem heartless or insubordinate for the best reasons, and where classical music gets...
...film work, Muse was a virtuoso and a teacher too. He taught the white audience that a black man could be a person of substance, complexity and moral grandeur. That was quite an accomplishment then; it's not all that common...