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...some troubles, though nothing quite so anguishing as the law school's. A 1985 poll of 134 national companies measuring employer satisfaction with M.B.A.s dropped the business school from its longtime rating of national leadership to third place, behind Northwestern's Kellogg School and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. One shortcoming that some critics perceive: although business-school alumni still rate first in management skills, they may not be on the cutting edge of economic and market theory. Bok seems to have agreed with this assessment. In a 1979 report he noted that "the case method actually limits...
...Bias associated with a few such human leeches. Brian Lee Tribble, 24, a self-employed furniture upholsterer and former Maryland junior varsity basketball player, has been charged with providing Bias with the coke that killed him. "We had heard about it, and I had approached him about it," says Wharton Lee Madkins, director of Maryland's Columbia Park Recreation Center and Bias' first basketball coach. "He told me he wasn't messing with drugs, so I just took it for granted and left it alone...
Ever since the heyday of horror fiction, when Henry James and Edith Wharton tried their hands at the supernatural, aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it a new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man. He is as morbid as Stephen King, but unlike his American counterpart, this 33-year-old writer from Liverpool is witty, unpredictable and concise. In these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built...
That sense of the ominous haunts Brooke Astor's novel: the worst is waiting to occur immediately after the curtain falls on the kind of fiction that has been out of style since the period it concerns. In this dry, sparkling comedy of manners, reminiscent of Edith Wharton's lighter works, the glitter is incessant. Emily Codway, a widow of a certain age -- nearly 60 actually, although she will only admit to 49 -- carries on a sunset flirtation with a fortyish Italian prince, Carlo Pontevecchio. Her sister-in-law Irma Shrewsbury, also a moneyed widow, is romanced by Charlie Hopeland...
...business, and probably still face criminal charges. To earn a chance for leniency, Wilkis and Sokolow extended swift cooperation to authorities. Wilkis resigned from E.F. Hutton even before the SEC brought its case. Sokolow's lawyer said his client, who majored in economics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and earned a master's degree from the Harvard Business School, was experiencing a "terribly sad and difficult time for a young man of great decency and enormous promise." Wilkis agreed to pay $3.3 million, which represents stock-trading profits and penalties, while Sokolow will turn over...