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...signed up for enough lectures to keep him running around the world at something like $1,000 a talking minute and has been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground. He roams the 34th floor of Fox Plaza, high above Century City, trains binoculars on a tip of his Bel Air home, visible 3 miles away, and mutters dark incantations against a new high-rise going up in his field of view. He leans down with pride to show visitors the model of the Spanish-type library building...
Looking westward from his desk to Financial Plaza, the president of Harvard Management Company (HMC) can see the skyline rising sharply over the Charles River. But his view of Cambridge and the College he once attended has long been obstructed by the sprouting city core...
...spirit. The dimly lit cafes in which couples two months ago whispered fearfully over mugs of ersatz tea now ring with gossip over cups of real coffee. Rumanians who once shied in terror from contact with foreigners besiege me as soon as I open my notebook. In the vast plaza of Piata Unirii, crowds that would once have been swiftly dispersed by Securitate goons argue the merits of 30 new political parties, then race home to watch Rumania's hot new television show: taped excerpts from the trial of Ceausescu's top henchmen. In the final episode last week...
...developing Canadian real estate. The twelve board members included Albert Reichmann, chairman of Olympia & York Developments, a Canadian real estate giant that has invested $700 million in Campeau Corp. and holds a 38% stake in the company. Emerging from four days of meetings in Toronto's pink marble Scotia Plaza, the directors said they had vested control of the U.S. stores in a voting trust to be run by a board of U.S. trustees...
...this just P.H.C. at the Plaza? Sure. Maybe. No. There was, of course, a rambling dispatch from Lake Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among other arcanities, the splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything...