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Now this corporate attrition appears to be accelerating. Last week's exit of Steve Burke, president of Disney subsidiary ABC Broadcasting, was the latest in a string of departures in recent months, including those of top strategist Lawrence Murphy, chief financial officer Richard Nanula and TV whiz Geraldine Laybourne. The...
Gertrude ("Ma") Rainey, known as the mother of the blues, stands at the juncture of rural country blues and a more urban form that reached its peak with the popularity of her protege, Bessie Smith. As the first broadly known traveling blues woman, Rainey represented for many women in her...
What disturbs Indonesians and foreign observers alike is that Habibie's entire political career was based on by his closeness to Suharto. He is closer to the ousted leader than anyone else outside the President's immediate family. Their father-son relationship goes back to the death of Habibie's...
This is what presidential candidate Jack Stanton tells his protege Henry Burton at the end of Primary Colors, a new film adapted from the best-selling novel by journalist Joe Klein; and it's the message we're left with after what amounts to an entertaining embellishment of the 1992...
Collected Stories, a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, is about a mentor-protege relationship between two women writers. Ruth Steiner (Deborah Kipp), a middle-aged writer living in Greenwich Village, takes on the overeager graduate student Lisa Morrison (Felicity Jones) as her assistant and tutee. Lisa is awed by...