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There are at least three answers. They all are (or were) celebrated performers. All won fame using pseudonyms: namely, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and George Burns; John Garfield, Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis; and Peter Lorre, Jill St. John, Paul Muni and Lauren Bacall. Most important, all are dramatic examples of the way many Jews have dissembled as a way of evading anti-Jewish sentiments while at large in gentile America...
Some firms were quicker than others to regard women as executive timber. In his latest book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Management Expert Peter Drucker reports that New York's Citibank was one of the first major companies to go after female M.B.A.s, in the 1970s. Recruiters who were sent out in search of the best male graduates in finance and marketing began reporting back to headquarters that many of the best graduates were women, not men. The bank told them simply to hire the best...
Recognition at home was slower in coming. "We Canadians," Davies told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, "are not enthusiasts about our own people." That is no longer true, at least in his case. What's Bred in the Bone has garnered raves from Canadian reviewers. Which seems fitting, since this novel, like most of his other fiction, draws heavily on the author's experiences in his native land. Elements of Francis Cornish's troubled youth come straight from Davies' memories: "As a child, I was beaten up by Catholic kids every day after school. As a newspaperman in that...
...motivated by "glitter and gusto" and that he was "immature" prove only that the doctors have been watching too many beer commercials. Their comments are an insult to all victims of Bolshevism. I suggest they administer a psychiatric examination to the officials involved in this tragedy. Peter Lepka Freeport...
...Commons voted 473 to 47 in favor of the accord giving the Irish Republic a formal consulting voice in the governing of Northern Ireland. After the tally was announced, the Rev. Ian Paisley, a militant Protestant leader, shouted, "Ulster forever!" The next day, Paisley and fellow Democratic Unionist M.P. Peter Robinson tendered their resignations in the Commons' traditional fashion by applying for nominal Crown jobs, which would bar them from House membership. Their 13 Ulster Unionist colleagues vowed to follow suit...