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That change of fortune reflects the revolution that Chenault and CEO Harvey Golub have quietly wrought at American Express (1996 revenues: $16.2 billion). Golub, 58, took command in 1993 after directors dumped James Robinson III for turning the company into an unwieldy financial supermarket. Golub promptly lopped off the brokerage, investment-banking and life-insurance units that Robinson had assembled, leaving American Express focused on credit cards, travel and financial services, including mutual funds. Golub, a sometimes abrasive native of Brooklyn, N.Y., initially slashed $2 billion out of a $13.4 billion cost structure, and has kept expenses in line with...
...sight to behold and an image to cherish--a little country church, improbably fashioned out of glass and wrought iron, bobbing down an untamed river deep in the 19th century Australian wilderness. How in the world did it and the man delivering it--a nice, pious (if defrocked) clergyman named Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes)--end up in these unlikely precincts...
...asking the concentrations to give up some of the carefully wrought program it's already put together," said Deborah D. Foster, the assistant dean for undergraduate education and the head tutor of the Folklore and Mythology department...
...Schnairsohn '98 is remarkably rare. Consider, for example, how Kathryn Walker's recent staging of The Bacchae in the Agassiz smothered its actors in an admittedly dazzling weave of colors, echoes and choreography. Kushner's whole point, in fact, is that wonder and magic are essentially human phenomena; not wrought upon his characters but arising from them, pouring out or passing through...
...channel surfing, looking for something sufficiently mindless, when I came across a Charles Bronson film festival. "Chow Down With Chuck!" ordered the WABU 68 announcer, so I did. Ah, the campy violence! The atrocious special effects! The liberal use of the bluescreen! The painfully illogical plot! The script wrought with Dadaist precision! In a fit of foolish idealism, I blurted to my roommate, "You know, we sure have come a long way, at least in terms of action films...