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Savage has developed a reputation on Capitol Hill as something between a rascal and a scoundrel. An energetic promoter of minority set-aside contracts, Savage's most notable achievement was to push the construction of a 27-story federal building that wound up in another Chicago congressional district. He is also known for sponsoring seven resolutions honoring heavyweight boxer Joe Louis. All died in committee. Recently, the House ethics committee reprimanded him for making sexual advances to a female Peace Corps volunteer during a trip to Zaire...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...
...problems [at the CSIA] is that over the past two years, the level of activity has wound down. My first priority is catching up with the wind-down," he said...
When politically beleaguered George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), speaker of the state House of Representatives, wound his way through a crowd of supporters to the podium at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge last week to announce his bid for treasurer, an elaborate speaker system belted out the title theme to Raiders of the Lost...
Drexel's most egregious technique was to force companies into unwanted deals, executives say. In one battle that wound up in court, Staley Continental, a food producer based in suburban Chicago, accused Drexel of trying to pressure Staley executives into launching a buyout bid for their company. Before Staley's $220 million suit reached an out-of-court settlement in 1988, the sensational charges were the talk of Wall Street. "They appealed to your greed," says Robert Hoffman, who was Staley's chief financial officer at the time. "And if that didn't work, they appealed to your fear that...