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...provincial renown the Beaux ArtsTrio enjoys unfortunately does not extend tothe Harvard student population. The hundreds oflisteners who fill Sanders Theater weekday nightstend to be adults. While the high price of tickets($18) and the inconvenient scheduling of theconcerts might be prohibitive, the performancesare inarguably strong and a refreshing respitefrom the pressures of hectic university life
Celebrity is not new. Leo Braudy in The Frenzy of Renown traced its origins to Alexander the Great and other leaders who used fame to consolidate their power. But as a lucrative career in itself, celebrity is a recent creation. A herd of columnists like Colacello moos after the newly famous, chronicling tectonic shifts in the species and its habitats imperceptible to anyone but the most tireless observers. The columnists then become famous for their mooing...
...struck San Francisco, city authorities closed many of the gay bathhouses. In France, land of Descartes and Voltaire, a different logic prevails: AIDS has prompted a call to reopen the brothels, which have been banned since 1946. The idea comes from Michele Barzach, a gynecologist and feminist who gained renown in 1986 when she became Health Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac. Now a deputy mayor of Paris, Barzach has not abandoned her support for women's rights. But she argues that the only way to keep AIDS at bay is to get the streetwalkers off the trottoirs...
...Saks' renown stands in sharp contrast to the relative obscurity of its new owner. Investcorp was started in 1982 by Nemir Kirdar, a U.S.-educated Iraqi who had worked for Chase Manhattan Bank, and Abdul-Rahman Salim Al-Ateeqi, a former Kuwaiti Finance Minister. The company's 12,000 shareholders, none of whom own more than a 0.5% stake, constitute a Who's Who of Middle Eastern tycoons and royalty. The firm's philosophy is to make large, friendly investments, which, so far, have been concentrated in the U.S. and Europe...
That blunt diagnosis is typical of Sachs, 34, an economics wunderkind who was a tenured professor at 29 and has become a champion of debt relief for developing countries. He first gained renown for his advice to Bolivia, which slashed its inflation rate from more than 20,000% in 1985 to 15% today. When Sachs visited Argentina last June, talk-show hosts rushed to schedule interviews. In a single hectic week last month, Sachs was in Peru and Brazil and then jetted to Warsaw, where he advises the new government...