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...scheme was hatched in the minds of Tom Southwick ’71 and sports editor John Powers to insure Harvard struck a blow that the Elis would remember even should they emerge victorious that afternoon...
...followed this immersion with a solid grounding in classical and jazz piano, then launched his career with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and later with a quintet led by saxophonist Phil Woods, with whom he continues to make appearances today. "What struck me was his depth," says Woods. "A lot of young players have university credentials but have lost touch with the street. They all sound the same. Not Bill. He really gets down deep into...
Those "necessary" things were prompted by the dishonesty and vacuity she sensed in virtually every level of public discourse. "I actually became struck by the fact that people very routinely talk about major writers, historical figures, episodes in history on the basis of what are very, very banal clichés," says Robinson, who lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and has taught at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop since 1991. "My impatience with that became so marked that I felt as if I couldn't say anything true until I had essentially re-educated myself." Which...
...Tonna and the two auditors allegedly came up with Parmalat's most audacious invention: a bogus milk producer in Singapore that supposedly supplied 300,000 tons of nonexistent milk powder to a Cuban importer via Bonlat, a Cayman Islands subsidiary that held the fake Bank of America account. "What struck and surprises me is the simplicity," says Francesco Greco, the senior magistrate in Milan on the case. "It was almost banal...
...What struck and surprises me is the simplicity [of the Parmalat fraud]. It was almost banal...