Word: steve
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...alongside the students from the band. Batiste's performance capped off a week in residence at Harvard, the latest in the series of internationally-acclaimed jazz musicians who have worked with students through the Office for the Arts's "Learning from Performers" program. In recent years, such geniuses as Steve Lacy, Don Byron and Andrew Hill have cooperated with Harvard students in workshops and rehearsals for concert performances like that of last Friday night...
...BETTER COME HOME, by Garrison Keillor, with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Viking; $15.99), presents the sage of Lake Wobegon in bardic mode, with a talking blues for cat owners. Puff disdains the low-rent cat food her master serves and hightails it for the big city. Her master pleads, "Come home, old Puff, come home to us,/ There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell it was Puff even...
...employers are not the only ones who can raid worker benefits. Steve Anderson, the president of AlcoTec Wire, a small manufacturer of aluminum wire in northern Michigan, wondered last year why employees who left to join other companies failed to receive their 401(k) settlement checks on time. The trail led to the Honer, Timberlake Pension Services firm. Charles Timberlake, the trustee for AlcoTec's plan, admitted to stealing what turned out to be nearly $365,000 of 401(k) money. "We got the whole tearful confession," Anderson says. "He just targeted our company." Fortunately for AlcoTec, its private insurance...
...COLUMNIST FOR THE NEW YORK Times Magazine, has figured out that by tweaking the rich, eventually you can become one of them. He tweaked the bond traders in his bestseller, Liar's Poker, and profited like a bond trader from the book sales. In his latest column he tweaks Steve Forbes, the presidential candidate who owns Forbes magazine, for "leading the charge to eliminate capital-gains taxes...
With $5 trillion worth of government bonds outstanding, the bond market has siphoned away a huge amount of money that could have gone into the stock market, which has more important things to do than make Steve Forbes richer. It is the stock market that raises the capital to help new companies get started and old companies expand, both of which grease the economic skids and create jobs and incomes the government can tax. In fact, the only easy way out of the deficit mess, aside from printing extra dollars on the presses in the Treasury Department, is to speed...