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...write to make known my utter disappointment in the article published recently in The Crimson describing Agatha M. Okyere ’81 (News, “Harvard Grad Prepares to Leave Home on the Street...
Weill made a call on Grubman's behalf and pledged a $1 million donation from Citi to the 92nd Street Y. Linking that support to Grubman's upgrade of AT&T stock is "utter nonsense," Weill says. Yet last week Weill acknowledged for the first time that he had asked Grubman to "take a fresh look" at his neutral rating on AT&T just before Grubman turned bullish and AT&T awarded Citi a nearly $45 million investment-banking job taking public the company's wireless division. Investigators are interested in that link and the possibility that Weill sought Grubman...
...artisans. Yet the changes are all but inevitable, as technology compensates for a dwindling supply of qualified craftsmen. "It's an inescapable truth that machines can ultimately step in and do most jobs as well as, if not better than, humans," says Hetherington. There's no denying that for utter precision and consistency, nothing beats a 125-ton computer-driven swaging machine hammering down on a barrel 1,600 times a minute. What is unknown is whether knowledgeable collectors--seeking uniqueness, not consistency--will one day insist on "pre-machine" guns...
...ending of the movie is what saves it from utter banality, but it is far from enough to compensate for the earlier flaws in the script. These diminish the brilliance of the few shining moments of the film, resulting in a work that isn’t entirely bad, but doesn’t exactly make the grade, either...
...staff. While Rove does not attend sessions of the President's war council, he regularly weighs in on foreign-policy matters during morning senior staff meetings with the President, offering opinions on everything from Middle East peace to international trade to the Cuban economic embargo. "Karl has the absolute, utter trust of the President of the United States," says Bill Paxon, a prominent G.O.P. operative and former Congressman with close ties to the White House. "That's really what makes him so good...