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...Howard Stevenson, who has held the Sarofim-Rock chair since its founding, praised Rock for his generosity and sound business sense...
...supporting the change - is part of a renewed push to keep the U.S. from adopting the IASB's stricter standards. "I'm very bemused by a guy who's running a stock exchange lashing out like this at his own customers," says IASB director of technical activities Kevin Stevenson, but "maybe this is the beginning of a more significant battle." Perhaps Berkeley's volley would have more credibility if the NASDAQ had not plunged 74% since the spring of 2000. Who's pulling down whom...
...Beall and Minoustchine) that has consistently published very fine, full color, hardcover literary adaptations by top comix artists. In the past few months they have produced three exceptionally well-done works: "The Yellow Jar," based on Japanese folk tales, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella, and an adaptation of Marcel Proust's immense "Remembrance of Things Past...
...this search for beauty is the adaptation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (64pp.; $15.95) by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky, with art by Mattotti. Of the three adaptations covered here, this one takes the most liberties with the original material. Organized more like a mystery, R. L. Stevenson's original 1886 novella kept Dr. Jekyll's secret until two-thirds through the book. No longer a mystery to anyone, Mattotti and Kramsky wisely focus instead on Jekyll's motivations in releasing the nefarious Hyde. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts...
After weeks of dampening expectations for "smoking gun" evidence against Iraq, the Bush administration is now teeing up an "Adlai Stevenson moment." That's diplomat-speak for the instant in which a U.S. official trumps all naysayers at the United Nations by hauling out graphic, incontrovertible evidence that its enemy is lying. Stevenson, as President John F. Kennedy's UN ambassador in 1962, slam-dunked the Soviets during a heated Security Council debate by producing satellite photographs that disproved Moscow's denials that missiles had been stationed in Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to produce a similar effect...