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...first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants on another. At least the view of Manhattan is magnificent--as Shemmer leads me on a tour of the office I take in the architecture of the bridge and an unobstructed view of the city, all the way to the Empire State Building. The interior look is upscale "Dilbert"--partners' offices surrounding rows of cubicles done up in a tasteful grey...
...despite appearances, this is a workplace, and after a quick tour of the halls it's time to get down to business. I immediately learn where these investment bankers spend their 80-hour weeks: in cubicles, in front of a computer monitor. This is an Internet economy, and Shemmer conducts the vast majority of his business online--trading e-mail messages, surfing the Web, with an occasional phone call to lighten the glow of the screen. Shemmer writes a report the way Harvard students write papers, stopping every 10 minutes to check his e-mail. He estimates that he gets...
Marvin pointed to the rendering, as well as a painting of the Glee Club's first conductor, Archibald T. Davison, and a statue given to the Glee Club on its European tour in 1921, a trip which made the Glee Club the first American college chorus to complete an international tour, as symbols of the college's musical history...
December 31, 1999 would roll around and the world would be whipped up into such a millennial frenzy that anything would sell. Stores stocked up on survival supplies. Tour companies began arranging fantastically expensive tours to the Pacific for customers who want to see the first lights of the year 2000. Consumers reported widespread champagne hoarding. Rumor was that CNN was busy composing the mother of all theme jingles for their millennium coverage...
...international renown as a ballerina of unique virtuosity, at once lyrical and daring. But even though she has staged Balanchine's works for such companies as the Paris Opera Ballet and St. Petersburg's Kirov Ballet, this is the first time she has taken her own group on tour...