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Osterberg said he spoke with Jack Wise of the Telephone Office, who was open to suggestions for resolving the problem...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weld Phone Lines to Be Limited | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

Secretary of State-designate Warren Christopher, 67, is the wise elder of the group, a colorless but painstaking negotiator who directs Clinton's transition and served as Jimmy Carter's Deputy Secretary of State. Clinton named business executive Clifton Wharton, who is 66 and black, to be Christopher's deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Old, Some New, Some Borrowed . . . | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

...soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kid-Lit Capers | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...Verdi, Bartoli says, "Never!" Carmen has been offered by several houses and turned down -- at least until she is in her 30s. The wise men who hover over her career, like Barenboim and Levine, hope she sticks to her resolve. The fact is that, lovely as her voice is, it is not large. But 26 is very young. It is nearly impossible to predict how a voice will develop; the supreme Wagnerian Kirsten Flagstad sang operetta in her 20s. "You must never force," Bartoli insists. "The test is after the concert: Is the voice still fresh so that you could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Roman Candle Newcomer | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...mean I like all our stuff, I just think, like all artists, the last thing you did is your favorite. Maybe when I get some perspective on it and my career is over, I can look at them all as a body of work. I think that production-wise it's by far our best record...

Author: By Howie Axelrod, | Title: The Workings of a Band | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

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