Word: sternly
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Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok, violinist Isaac stern and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John H. Updike '54 will receive honorary degrees at Commencement today...
...story centers around Alejandro Stern, the defense attorney from Presumed Innocent who faces his wife's mysterious suicide and his brother-in-law's duplicity...
...widely afraid of self-imitation when I began the second book," said Turow to Time magazine. "I'm proud of Burden of Proof, particularly the portrait of Sandy Stern and his complicated involvements in family life...
LOOKING FOR ALL THE WORLD LIKE TWO NAUGHTY schoolboys, the opposing leaders in Thailand's civil carnage knelt humbly before King Bhumibol Adulyadej to receive a stern lecture. The essence: cut it out. In effect the King ordered Suchinda Kraprayoon, the general who had accepted the post of Prime Minister despite his vow not to do so, and Chamlong Srimuang, the ascetic former governor of Bangkok and leader of the move to depose Suchinda, to work out some compromise. Said the monarch: "I would like both of you to talk face-to- face, not to confront each other, because this...
Like any hotly contested issue, Chapter 11 has its share of champions. "On balance, Chapter 11 has been positive for the economy," says Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. "It conserves the assets and values of firms that have temporary problems but can be rehabilitated." Altman and doctoral student Edith Hotchkiss conducted a study that found that at least half the 1,096 firms entering Chapter 11 between 1979 and 1991 emerged successfully and have managed to stay out. That study focused exclusively on publicly held companies in Chapter...