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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, McLaughlin says, most of the recruitment comes from other available groups of politicians--those who have just retired or are prevented from running for their post again because of term limits...
...Omaha" lost it? Please. He suffers from technophobia and has thus missed out on a big part of what's been driving the stock market. Meanwhile, those big-brand names he loves have been laggards. But it's hard to make the case that in the very long term--and Buffett believes in holding for life--stocks like Gillette and Coke won't come back...
...interpretation might be that Clark is simply driven by the pursuit of filthy lucre. There has to be a higher purpose to life than making yourself rich. During the '80s, we knew that the people making their fortune on Wall Street were hardly role models; yuppie was a derogatory term. Clark, for all his brilliance, uses his billions to do little more than buy himself great toys; he's even cynical about the get-rich-quick Net companies he's created. And yet he's our role model? He makes Bill Gates look enlightened...
...kind of American verismo," Bolcom says of View, using the Italian term for such popular slice-of-life operas as Puccini's La Boheme and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Sure enough, the tale of Eddie Carbone (baritone Kim Josephson), a middle-aged longshoreman who lusts after his young niece Catherine (soprano Juliana Rambaldi), has verismo stamped all over it, right down to the climactic knife fight. In this new version, adapted by Miller and co-librettist Arnold Weinstein, View has acquired a Greek chorus that comments on the unfolding disaster, though the overall effect remains faithful to the original play. Think...
...varsity-football practice and homework, makes pizza at Cecil Whittaker's three nights a week. "And I'm saving up to buy a car." Teachers and parents here recognize the value of introducing kids to the "real world," but with paychecks competing with grades and late-night shifts rivaling term-paper deadlines, more and more students are asking, How many hours are too many...