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...some sense, last week's agreement with Microsoft, a deal in which Bill Gates has taken on a junior-partner role to AT&T, is symbolic of what has occurred. For if Gates has defined visionary business leadership throughout the '90s, then Armstrong may now be emerging as a revisionary visionary in his own right. AT&T, like Microsoft, struggled to form a coherent strategy to embrace the technologies and consumer services emerging in the "post-PC" era. Unlike Microsoft, AT&T has certainly made up for lost time...
...born to a baked-goods fortune and never thought she would be concerned with getting or giving money. "I liked to be taken care of," says Sara Lee Schupf, 58, the namesake of the famous frozen pies. Then in the early '80s, after a devastating divorce, she had to learn to take care of herself and others. She had no work experience and no clue about managing money. With four kids to look after and educate, she imagined her savings dwindling rapidly and, she says, "spent many days in tears...
...target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently and dive the plane to make it harder to hit, tossing a few passengers about and causing at least one to start crossing himself furiously. The plane was landed safely. But every U.S. official since then has taken the long road--literally--a three-hour trip by armored car from Greece to Macedonia...
...atmosphere, the disciplining of six male students for offensive behavior toward women last spring inspired a fire storm of criticism of what came to be known as the school's "woman problem." In 1998 only 24% of graduates were women, among the lowest of the top schools. Harvard has taken measures, both before the harassment incident and after it, to work on its climate and reputation. In 1997 the school devoted $1 million in grants and school funds to case studies that feature women business executives. The admissions department has placed new emphasis on women's outreach in the past...
Richard Rodgers' grandson, the most provocative and promising of post-Sondheim theatrical songwriters, has taken a sharp turn on the road to Broadway: his latest composition is a song cycle about love, sin, doubt and transcendence. The music is composed in an utterly personal style that blends pop, gospel and classical influences; the lyrics weave together Greek mythology and Christian hymnody to complex, unsettling effect. Persuasively performed on CD by singers such as Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin and Guettel, Myths & Hymns is a major event in American popular song...