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Commanding the stage in a barbershop quartet-style outfit, Boston soloist Christopheren Nomura accepted the challenge to make a few more female hearts go pitter-pat. However, Nomura simply could not consistently execute the intense and virile baritone sound required by these haunting and often histrionic ballads. Famous for his smashing successes on the interntional vocal scene, the young singer has been praised for his smooth, "lean" sound. Perhaps such high expectations made Sunday's performance a tad disappointing. It seemed as if Nomura were holding back, afraid to overpower the audience with the full weight and resonance...
...figured out that raw computing power was growing and the price dropping so quickly that one day every office and home in America would have a computer. With his partner L.J. Sevin, he helped launch Silicon Valley legends such as Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Borland International and an outfit called Compaq, the world's largest personal-computer maker. He's still chairman. "My brother has done pretty well for himself," says Harold with a smile. Little brother is worth about $100 million...
Senator Kerry--Junior Senator is just that in the clothes department. The outfit has not changed since the first debate in the spring...
...whether Clinton stands for what he stands for. When the architect of Clinton's family-friendly strategy gets caught in an infidelity, so does the President's family-friendly message. With all his clients, Republican and Democratic, Morris operated like a political chop shop, dismantling ideas from wherever to outfit his candidates with usable parts. If the final product ran well, that was success. Clinton now runs like a dream, so he may well be on cruise control and beyond damage from the Morris debacle. But if voters are cynical about the poll-driven techniques of modern politics, including...
...received it last year, the blandly worded letter spelled doom. They were about to be spun off to a new company being formed around 3M's money-losing data storage and medical imaging divisions. The outcasts would have to teach those old dogs some profitable new tricks. The outfit's products, ranging from floppy disks to X-ray film and magnetic resonance devices, were well regarded but caught in viciously competitive markets. When Gallup polled the spun-off workers about their fate, typical responses included "shocked," "betrayed" and "apprehensive...