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Consulting and investment banking firms seem to be reducing recruiting efforts from last year's peak...
...heartbeat," a formidable spirit and great artist who tried, and failed, to save Parker from the demons that drove and devoured him. Clifford Brown, dead in a car wreck, whose only vice was chess. Miles Davis, who beat back his inner darkness and took jazz to the peak of its last great popularity. Thelonious Monk, a generative spirit of compulsive genius, who applied a kind of circular geometry to the keyboard and gave jazz new contours. Billie Holiday, the beautiful desolation angel, the most ravishing and ravaged of jazz singers, whose rendition of Autumn in New York Burns allows...
Perhaps it was the picturesque backdrop of Pikes Peak--or the shortness of breath that 6,000 feet above sea level induces, but its weekend set against then-No. 6 Colorado College was anything but typical...
...culture; Charlie Brown and Snoopy could go from being cartoon pitchmen for cars and life insurance, their huge heads and tiny bodies stretched across blimps at golf tournaments, to being the inspiration for a "Peanuts" concerto by contemporary composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, premiering at Carnegie Hall. At the peak of Schulz's popularity, "Peanuts" captured 355 million readers, and he was earning from $30 to $40 million a year...
Scare talk about oil prices will probably reach a peak this winter. Colder than usual temperatures are forecast for North America, and inventories of home heating oil and natural gas are at what the U.S. Energy Department calls "alarmingly low levels." That's the classic formula for a price spike that could quickly drive the cost of oil above $40 per bbl., a level that, if sustained for any significant length of time, could inflict considerable damage on the U.S. and global economies. O.K., that's the scare-your-pants-off scenario. At the moment, though, most experts are more...