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...statistician to chairman and ceo; in Belleair, Florida. Roche was credited with expanding equal opportunity at the company, including bringing in GM's first African American board member, but he was also forced to issue a public apology in 1966 for the company's efforts to discredit consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed questioned the safety of GM's Corvair...
...agonize over this, because I want the score to sound exactly as it did originally." No reclamation project was as daunting as that of "St. Louis Woman," the 1946 Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical revived in 1998. "There was no score," Fisher said, "just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance numbers, were obliged to create - the musical settings. Topflight actor-singers signed on. And then the inspired rush to turn an old classic into a new one, all in a fortnight...
...much more of the same. It would, but later. Now he had bigger ambitions (as his label-mate, Bobby Darin, would in segueing from the rockin? ?Splish Splash? to the Sinatraesque ?Mack the Knife?). Charles issued his really-big-band LP, ?The Genius of Ray Charles? (with arrangements by Ralph Burns and the young Quincy Jones). The set teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with the big boys, winning their respect after initial skepticism...
Even if Bush weren’t as formidable an opponent, Kerry still has to deal with the last election’s spoiler, Ralph Nader. Though Nader has promised to leave the race if it looks like he might swing it for Bush (and polling data indicates that he very well might), his mere entry into the campaign threatens to split the liberal vote. If he really wants to form a united front against the president, Nader should rally behind the one man who has a chance at beating Bush—John Kerry...
Tribe, who is presently the Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at HLS, will become the Carl M. Loeb University Professor—a title held by the late Archibald Cox ’34 until 1984—and Whitesides, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry, will be the first Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor...