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Garry Wills, who teaches history at Northwestern University, is the author of Lincoln at Gettysburg
...firm with 2,400 attorneys in 34 countries, Klotsche decided that the 550 partners in the firm, himself included, did not know enough about how to manage business in today's fast-changing marketplace. So the boss has headed to the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., to study business topics like strategic planning, delivering client value and implementing corporate change. Klotsche's firm is investing $4 million to $5 million for all the Baker & McKenzie attorneys to take two-week executive-education management courses at Northwestern. The program, which began in May, will...
...traditional values from his Beverly Hills perch, it is because he is seen as one of the rare Tinseltown practitioners. Raised in rural Michigan, he has fond memories of roaming the woods with his .22-cal. rifle (and unhappy ones of his parents' broken marriage). He studied drama at Northwestern University, where he met his wife, Lydia Clarke, an actress and photographer. They have been married for 54 years and remain close to their two grown children. As for his six-year-old grandson Jack, who lives close by, Heston's macho stance melts, and he turns positively gaga...
...pristine northwestern pocket of Michigan has long been defined by its bountiful and delicious cherry crop. Old-timers insist that the region's soul lives within the sprawling orchards. But the festival's banners, posters and promotional material tell a different story. The event these days seems not so much a celebration of a cherished fruit as a paean to corporate America. Everywhere you go, you are reminded that "Ameritech presents the National Cherry Festival." Pontiac, Pepsi, American Airlines and A.1 steak sauce have attached themselves to the blossom. More than a third of the festival's $2.2 million budget...
...over Billings (pop. 91,000), the scrappy hub city of the northwestern Great Plains, home to oil refineries, regional medical centers and countless smoke-filled fistfight barrooms where cowboys from Wyoming to South Dakota come for some urban R. and R., people are losing everything to crank--their families, their jobs, their homes, their bank accounts and, perhaps irretrievably, their minds. The potent, man-made stimulant--invented 80 years ago in Japan, issued to soldiers in World War II, prescribed to chunky housewives in the '50s, known to '60s hippies as speed and now sometimes passed out to antsy third...