Word: walters
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...would you like to be AT&T's new president, John Walter? He's walking into a company in the throes of restructuring, and now has to deal with an archrival that just became a heavyweight. AT&T chairman Robert Allen didn't wait long to complain that the playing field is not level. AT&T, he asserted, faces barriers to providing full service in the United Kingdom, where BT controls more than 90% of the local phone connections. Allen urged regulators to make scrutiny of the merger "a global priority of the highest order." In the U.S., where...
...while President Clinton's legacy as a complex, fin-de-siecle character seems assured, his status as Kennedyesque trendsetter remains in doubt. His fondness for the mystery novels of Walter Mosley may have briefly nudged the author of Devil in a Blue Dress onto the best-seller lists--but don't bother looking on the current network-TV schedule for any series by famous friend-of-Bill producers Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason (their most recent show, Woman of the House, was swiftly canceled in 1995). As for setting a sartorial agenda, fashion-industry sources say the President...
...made a deal," says CHARLIE MATTHAU of directing his dad WALTER in The Grass Harp. "He'd listen to my directions. However, at any time, if so ordered, I'd put on a sweater." Such are the compromises one has to make as the offspring and the director of a star parent. Still, it can't be that horrid, since a spate of families have taken to the set together with happy results. NICK CASSAVETES wrote and directed Unhook the Stars as a "love letter" to his mom GENA ROWLANDS, and, he says, "she sent me one with her amazing...
Maxine Isaacs, the adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School and former press secretary for Walter Mondale, moderated the event, which was hosted by IOP Fellow Mark Merritt, former chief spokesperson for the 1996 Republican National Convention. Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal was also a panelist
...appendix of the book cited other scientists who had not been included in the rankings, including Aristotle and Harvard Noble laureate and geneticist Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert...