Word: stanley
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...investment firm Morgan Stanley sent an e-mail of apology to its clients saying that the decision to have Clinton as a speaker at its Florida conference had "clearly been a mistake." The parent of the investment firm Paine Webber has canceled negotiations with the former president for a speech, fearing the controversy that would result from his appearance. The New York Observer newspaper ran a long article about how Clinton's society friends in Manhattan are having second thoughts about socializing with the former president. And finally, Bill Clinton spoke out yesterday about how he is being unfairly persecuted...
...What we can be sure of is the incredible outcry against Clinton's last official presidential act. Republican pundits point to the pardons as yet another example of Clinton abusing presidential power for personal gain. Justice Department officials were "shocked and flabbergasted." Morgan Stanley, who paid Clinton $100,000 to speak at a convention in Florida in his first non-official appearance since the pardons, got so many complaints that they issued an official apology to their employees and clients...
Prominent essayist Stanley Crouch said Burns had not sufficiently emphasized the role of race in jazz history...
...They slashed their inventories and their payrolls, and now many are even beating Wall Street's (much lowered) expectations. That's great, but listen for a moment to Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "Five of the last six U.S. recessions have had a double dip, in which we've seemed to come into a recovery and then had a relapse," he says. "It takes that second dip to purge the economy of excesses...
...anyone was qualified for the job of assembling a Bill Monroe tribute, it was Ricky Skaggs. A virtuoso mandolinist and multi-instrumentalist who was playing with Ralph Stanley by the age of 16, Skaggs shared the stage with Monroe when still a child, and has been delivering on that promise ever since. For "Big Mon," Skaggs has reached well beyond the predictable bluegrass circles, and the success of the enterprise is a testament to the unassailable quality of Monroe's craft as much as the contributions of the individual performers...