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...Delaware limited partnership with a stake in four facilities. Among the investors who have taken advantage of the tax credits: the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the publicly owned but government-sponsored corporation that bills itself as the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages; Morgan Stanley, the global financial-services firm; and Norfolk Southern Corp., which owns two major railroads in the Northeast as well as half of Conrail...
Here to remedy that is Stanley Bing, whose roundly entertaining and surprisingly touching novel, You Look Nice Today (Bloomsbury; 291 pages), is set almost entirely in the carpeted corridors of a large, faceless multinational conglomerate. Bing (the name is a pseudonym) writes a column for FORTUNE magazine (published by Time Inc., as is TIME), but he also has a day job as an executive at a major corporation. Thus he knows whereof he writes...
Early in the film, Vivien Leigh, as the Southern belle with patrician airs, lays eyes on Marlon Brando as sweaty, sexy, brutal Stanley Kowalski. That's the crucial moment when films gave up a love of the American aristocracy for a fascination with the roiling underclass, and when actors were given license to rage and mumble--to express the inchoate feelings of souls caged or adrift, doomed by society or destiny...
Thomas-Graham, who was introduced by another corporate leader, Morgan Stanley Managing Director Raymond J. McGuire ’79, also read to the audience from novels she had written...
Waters recalled an exchange between Said and Stanley Fish—now dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago—at one 1983 conference...