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Gordon Roddick seems the perfect foil for Anita. With his Scottish burr and occasional stutter, he is steady where she is erratic and quiet where she is brash. London analysts believe he is the financial wizard behind Anita's success. But he is best known in Body Shop lore for a voyage he took a few years into the marriage. The young couple had just sold a struggling restaurant when Gordon announced that he wanted to fulfill a lifelong dream: to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York City, an adventure he figured would take about two years...
...earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens some of his correspondence under a letterhead proclaiming himself the "Thorstein Veblen Wizard of Political Economy." To the criticism that few of the insights in his books are original, friends say Reich considers synthesis as important as discovery. As he once wrote in another context, "Often, greater rewards flow to quick and clever followers than to brilliant and original inventors...
When New York financial wizard Jack R. Meyer took over as head of HMC in the autumn of 1990, his mission was to resurrect a bleeding giant...
...Beast album has sold more than 1.9 million copies and has been on the pop charts for the past 49 weeks. MCA has tried to tap into the Nintendo craze with White Knuckle Scorin', an album about the video game that echoes the Who's celebration of a pinball wizard in the 1969 rock opera Tommy...
...twelfth through fifteenth songs sample the best of Freaky Styley, an album produced by funk wizard and leader of the groups Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton. Accordingly, these songs show tighter, more restrained guitar parts, such as those James Brown's bands developed, and an exciting use of horns. These four songs certainly rank among the band's greatest hits, and one only regrets that "Yertle the Turtle" from *Freaky is missing...