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...seemed rested, renewed and optimistic after a month long working-vacation in Europe this summer. Though not out of mind, many of last year's controversies-like those over Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig, Harvard Institute for International Development and Harvard's Allston land purchase-seemed out of sight. * And Rudenstine should have more time to devote to his agenda, since the staff of senior administrators Rudenstine relies on to run a complex and far-flung University seems stable for the first time in his presidency. Gone are the year-long quests to fill vacant deanships and vice-presidential...
...Italy and lives in Canada, says she never aims to shock, though she usually strikes a nerve: "I try and look for beauty in darkness, to make some kind of harmony in the images." In her video for shock-rocker Manson's Tourniquet, we are treated to the sight of Manson shaving his own armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have a ghastly playfulness that evokes David...
...funds: "I sure wish I could tell you that the public should be in hedge funds. But I think it's better for most people to have their money with a guy like Will Danoff at Fidelity than with some crazy man who's running around shorting everything in sight," he explains minutes before the market opens for another up day. Then, with a clap of the hands, it's off to the trading floor and the seductive promise of the dog track: "Let's go make some money!" There goes Swifty...
CARJACKERS Hands off! Louisiana law says you can be shot on sight...
...Wright brothers' invention was perfected, the blimp has spent the past 30 years as the lofty billboard of the Goodyear Corp. Now, for a fee of $200,000 a month, such companies as Alta-Vista and Russell Stover are causing dozens of jumpy citizens to call FAA with UFO sightings. Eleven blimps are flying somewhere around the country, and there will be 13 by 1998. That's almost double the blimpage of a year ago. Most of them are made by the American Blimp Corp. of Hillsboro, Ore., which has designed a blimpette, that is, one so small...