Word: shermans
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...Mpeg1 Layer 3) to receive and send music over the Internet. The pirated tunes have sound quality comparable to that of CDs, and can even be channeled through conventional stereo systems. "The Internet has made music so vulnerable," says Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) general counsel Cary Sherman, "[that] if it were left to go unchecked, you would eventually reach a point where the pirate market would supplant the real market...
...Sherman Helmsley...
...story was a headshaker. Ruth Sherman, a white Brooklyn, N.Y., elementary school teacher, assigned her class a book called Nappy Hair, about a little girl's proud acceptance of her coily mane, in order to bolster the self-esteem of her black and Latino charges. But some parents, after seeing only a few photocopied pages, assumed the book was a racist put-down and essentially ran Sherman out of the school. Most New Yorkers were torn between amazement at the brouhaha and pity for the children, who have lost a good teacher. But for Trevelyn Jones, book-review editor...
...America, and Hanks was suddenly the new surefire romantic-comedy guy. In three years he did seven films, mostly raffish comedies. It took Penny Marshall's Big (Break No. 3) to change that. Now he was so hot he was cast in roles that didn't suit him, like Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities or the thinks-he's-going-to-die hero of Joe versus the Volcano...
...shred humanity like an old memo to "create value." GE's Jack Welch, soon after becoming CEO, earned the label "Neutron Jack" for closing plants and laying off workers. He's a prince compared to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. A West Point graduate and former paratrooper, Dunlap struck like Sherman and crowed about it. At Lily Tulip he fired 50% of the corporate office; at Crown-Zellerbach, 20% of the work force; at Scott Paper, 11,000 employees. After firing 6,000 at Sunbeam, Chainsaw himself got axed by a pair of fire-breathing shareholders: Ronald Perelman, never mistaken...