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...American Council for the Arts, and with enthusiastic support from Charleston's feisty mayor, Joseph P. Riley Jr., Spoleto has weathered the artistic equivalent of Hurricane Hugo (which battered the city in 1989), reduced its debt by half a million dollars, and boosted its schedule to a robust 17 days, 51 programs and 141 performances-from the previous 12 days, 45 programs and 110 performances...
Free and uninhibited discourse is an essential component of the search for knowledge and the resolution of political questions. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) unequivocally commits itself to protecting open and robust debate; apparently, the Kennedy School has no such commitment...
...conventional rules of timing and location should make Barry Rutenberg's profitable homebuilding business especially robust these days. His Gainesville, Florida, company is in one of the fastest-growing parts of the fast-growing Southeast, and the spring buying season is under way. Money is easy: fixed-rate mortgages have fallen to 8.2% for a 30-year loan. But fewer people are poking through his developments, and Rutenberg recently sold a home for $208,000, at a loss of $24,000. "This was the first time I had to sell a home below cost this decade," he says...
...than about Amis, 45, a best-selling writer undergoing some serious midlife changes. First, he left his well-bred, moneyed American wife of nine years, Antonia Phillips, 43 (with whom he has two sons, ages 8 and 10), for a younger American girlfriend. She is Isabel Fonseca, the financially robust, thirtyish daughter of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and granddaughter of the late New York philanthropist Jacob Kaplan...
...21st century: surely there are rosier prospects for software than for spirits. But Bronfman wasn't selling his whiskey interests; he was giving up on a company with a strong present (Du Pont stock accounted for nearly 70% of Seagram's pretax profits last year) and a robust future. Unsurprisingly, Wall Street greeted both the Du Pont sale and the MCA negotiations with derision. On Friday Moody's Investors Service announced that it was considering "the possible downgrade" of Seagram's debt. Seagram stock dropped nearly 17% during the week, closing Friday at 26 1/2. Wall Street speculators signaled that...