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Bono gave up show business to become a restaurateur in the early '80s. The career switch landed him in Palm Springs, Calif., where his efforts to revamp his restaurant brought him into conflict with city zoning officials. He took on and took over city hall, becoming mayor in 1988. Bono found he had a taste for politics. A run for the Senate failed, but two years later the G.O.P. takeover of Congress swept him into the House as the Representative from California's 44th district. He was re-elected in '96. Bono sat on the House Judiciary Committee...
...revamp is unlikely to raise the same outcry. Last week's color photographs--like a food-section collage of colored pastas arranged into a map of Italy--were eye-catching but decorous. Stories in the new sections included such entertaining fare as a look at cookbook recipes that don't work and a design review of TV talk-show sets. But make no mistake: this is still your father's New York Times. The lead story in Monday's arts section was about a dead opera singer--Maria Callas--while an architecture review of a new Holocaust museum...
...further efforts to revamp Loker, the Administration sent a survey to all undergraduates for suggestions, installed a new eatery called Fast Track to replace the former sweet shop and added a 33" TV and couches...
...known for its strident demands, but in this case, it is wasting its breath. The staff may as well be calling for imagined fairies named Harvard University and the city of Boston to wave their wands and render the river sparkling. The town of Milford is working to revamp its waste systems, the EPA has warned people, and crew teams producing world-class rowers need a place to practice. This is an unfortunate situation that many people are working to remedy. We believe that the staff is being unreasonable...
Marques' fiscal heroics made her a leading candidate to succeed Cesar Maia as Rio mayor in last October's elections, but she chose the steel-company job instead. Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three...