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...first surprise of a night that held many, most of the impressive apparatus on stage turned out to belong to openers Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, who hunched over looping decks to produce artfully droning, clicking, shearing, squealing ambient suites. As the genial, bearded gents accreted countless sound fragments—seemingly random shards that synched perfectly with the epileptic video collages projected above them—they accomplished the estimable feat of getting the audience genuinely excited for the comparatively familiar pop craft of the Books...
...Amount eBay spent last year on CEO Meg Whitman's personal plane use. Since the IRS values such flight time as taxable income, the company gave Whitman a $128,390 "bonus" to cover the taxes...
...buyouts has raised fears that companies may be crushed by their huge debts if interest rates climb or the economy falls into a recession. Other critics call going private a waste of scarce capital. "As a financier, I regard it as an easy way to get rich," says Martin Whitman, president of M.J. Whitman & Co., a Manhattan investment firm. "But as a citizen who loves his country, I think there are better and more productive uses of the nation's money supply than to create debt to pay off stockholders...
Some reflected on their own experiences in the spotlight, like basketball great Oscar Robertson on LeBron James and Quincy Jones on Juanes, the Latin pop star. Some--like Citigroup's Sallie Krawcheck, who wrote about eBay's Meg Whitman; Gloria Steinem on Winfrey; and Richard Branson on Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard--make their judgments with a cool eye, but others, like Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono...
Other dramatic ventures take place in the Underground Theater, located in the Whitman Basement (contact Susan Livingston, slivings@fas.harvard.edu) The Cabot Drama Society also honors Dr. Seuss at an annual Grinch reading...