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Foreign investors, including Canadians, think the U.S. economy "is where the action is," says Michael McCracken, chairman of Informetrica, an economics think tank based in Ottawa. Ed Yardeni, chief economist and global-investment strategist of Deutsche Bank Securities, elaborates: "I go to Europe, Japan, have overseas investors coming to see me in my New York City office, and to a large extent they all want to be invested in technology. And it's very hard to find enough names of high-tech companies to invest in abroad. If you want to invest in technology, you've got to invest...
...humanly possible. In my first year here I saw, met or was involved in an educational experience with Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Alice Walker, Will Smith, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Goodman '63, Patricia O'Brien, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia Powell, Elizabeth McCracken, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. '60, Alphonse Flethcer Jr. University Professor Cornel West '74, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor...
DIED. HERB MCCRACKEN, 95, college football coach; in Boynton Beach, Florida. During a 1924 game, Lafayette coach McCracken thwarted Penn's attempts to learn players' signals by ordering his team to form a tight group to discuss plays in secret. Many claim this was the birth of the huddle...
...hear Silicon Graphics president Edward McCracken tell it, taking away the executive's most prized form of compensation -- stock options -- would be nothing less than a disaster for American business. High-tech companies, like his computer-manufacturing firm, would be unable to recruit top engineers and software programmers, warns McCracken. They would then lose their competitive edge. "The next thing you know," he says, "the Japanese would be taking over, and all of Silicon Valley would be at risk...
When the play debuted in London in 1987, where it was seen as a satire of me-first excesses of the Thatcher years, its central joke struck this reviewer as peculiarly English. For centuries Britons portrayed Italy as the epitome of treachery and mayhem; in this tale, although the McCrackens are enmeshed with five Italian gangster brothers (played by the same quick-changing actor), the real savagery is British born and bred. London's production, directed by the author, had the advantage of Michael Gambon in the lead. His Jack McCracken was a true reformer, alight with the intensity...