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Delbanco’s characters are detailed, familiar figures. Bella Starker, the troupe’s producer, is a rich Manhattan socialite whose Gramercy Park brownstone is “decked out like a James Bond stronghold.” The incest of the First Borns is evident with Jake and Grace, two friends who are already scandalously inseparable at the book’s onset. Then there is peppy and fresh-faced Cam, Rosalie’s friend for years, whose relationship she describes as “old pals with conveniently complementary body parts...
When Rosalie becomes involved with Berglan Starker, the multimillionaire father of her friend Bella, she realizes both the difficulty of an illicit affair as well as the emotional snafus liable to arise. When he visits her to help cook dinner, she worries that his presence in her apartment will make her associate it with him in the future...
...fundamental as the differences are between the Democratic and Republican parties, it is certainly the case that a Nader candidacy would, in some respects, present an even starker contrast. However, it is also certain that Nader would have essentially no chance of actually winning a general election—he received about three percent of the national vote...
...London, where the local market expertise resides. Installing James could even signal an attempt by News to buy a controlling share in BSkyB, or to place more News directors on the 15-person BSkyB board, which already boasts chairman Rupert, son James and three other News Corp. executives. A starker question is whether James, the youngest of Murdoch's four adult children, is really the right man for the job. He was a reluctant entrant into the family empire, having started his own independent hip-hop label after dropping out of Harvard. He had a hand in one of Murdoch...
...trend is CEO: pay for chief executives rose 15% in 2002, according to Equilar, a firm that studies CEO compensation. That amounts to about 200 times the pay of the average worker, up from 56 times in 1989, according to the Journal of Economic Issues. Nowhere is this disparity starker than in the audacious pension guarantees and bonuses proposed for top executives at struggling AMR, parent of American Airlines. The carrier recently asked the unions representing its machinists, flight attendants and pilots for $9 billion in wage givebacks and other concessions over five years to keep the jets flying. Captain...