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Incidently, AT&T would be as happy with non-thinking students as with the tail Thinker pictured in its ad: customers who fail to indicate an alternate choice for long distance carrier will automatically remain with AT&T, and they won't even get T-shirts...
...spoken and secretive investor from Omaha. Buffett, who owns 41% of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified investment firm, is an old hand at deals involving communications companies, but he acknowledges his friend's expertise too. As he told TIME last week, "Murph needs an adviser like Carl Lewis needs a tail wind." Berkshire Hathaway currently owns 13% of < the Washington Post Co., 8% of Affiliated Publications, whose flagship property is the Boston Globe, and 4% of Time Inc. Buffett agreed to buy 3 million shares, or 18%, of Capital Cities/ABC, as the new company is likely to be called. His cost...
This reputation rests, for Americans, almost wholly on one painting. It was no slight thing to have painted The Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like...
...expletives-deleted confrontation brought to the surface a long-standing feud. Downey, 36, received a 1-Y medical draft deferral during the Viet Nam War because of a pierced eardrum. Dornan, 51, a former Air Force jet pilot, was in flight training at the tail end of the Korean conflict. "I was getting my Air Force wings when Downey was in kindergarten," says Dornan...
Westside was founded at the tail-end of the last major movement for educational change School reform is, in 1985, again an issue of concern to parents and politicians, but the emphasis is completely different. Where educational theorists in the 1960s sought: to tree the student from the bounds that allegedly shackled tree though in the public schools, today's reformers seek a return to what they think schools were in the Good Old Days places where dedicated and respected teachers rigorously taught the traditional disciplines to eager and obedient pupils From California Supt of Public Instruction Bill Hong...