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...term for a member of Columbia's board lasts three years, with the "uncommon possibility of being reelected," said Prescott. Feldstein will receive $40,000 paid in stock each year as a member of the board, in addition to $1200 per meeting attended...
John S. Griswald, senior vice president of Common Fund, a cooperative that manages the endowments of several hundred universities and independent schools, says this diversity is not uncommon in holding companies...
...market and the font of business opportunities; the rest of the world will deliver finance, technology, professional expertise, the copy printed in his computer magazines, and even tax shelter. (Richina is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.) "I would never say this to friends," he says with uncommon modesty, "but I want to do my bit to make China an internationally recognized country. At the same time, the fact that I live in Shanghai means nothing. I live in the global village...
...Royale Drive, where Golden's parents live in a one-story stone bungalow, neighbors had reluctantly grown used to the sight of Drew biking in military fatigues. "He was always wearing camo clothing and talking about hunting and shooting targets," says neighbor Debbie Wilson. Hunting gear isn't uncommon in Jonesboro, but some parents were nevertheless wary of Drew, who was known to horse around with a hunting knife strapped to his side. "I didn't allow my Jenna to play with him," says neighbor Lloyd Brooks. "He was too rowdy...
Fred Friendly was the star we all steered by. Not only was he a superb editor, he was a writer of uncommon talent who taught us that, with rare exceptions, when television journalism is good, the pictures take second place to the words. Nothing illustrated his love of words more than his and Ed Murrow's I Can Hear It Now record albums. There were no pictures, but if you closed your eyes and listened, you could see the pictures--word pictures that came not from a camera but from Fred Friendly's typewriter...