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...doctor," says Meridian Group president Maggie Good, the expert who staged a more daring than anticipated rescue. "When they can't make payroll, I get parachuted in." Good, with a background in restructuring small to midsize companies, founded Meridian in 1988 to do turnaround consulting, investment banking and mergers and acquisitions. Her partner (and husband of 32 years) Tom Von Lehman, a chemist by training, had managed a division at PPG Industries, the big Pittsburgh, Pa., glass and chemical company. He joined her at Meridian in the post-9/11 press of business to provide management expertise. She works with...
DIED. Gillespie (Sonny) Montgomery, 85, homespun 15-term Congressman from Mississippi who championed higher education for veterans; in Meridian, Miss. Elected in 1966 after serving in World War II and the Korean War, the conservative Democrat created the Montgomery G.I. Bill in 1984, modernizing the 1940s G.I. Bill and expanding it for the peacetime, volunteer military...
...Beloved won with 15 votes; DeLillo's Underworld got the silver medal with 11. Also among the top vote-getters was Philip Roth's American Pastoral (7 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8 votes) and John Updike's Rabbit quadrilogy (also 8 votes, from judges using the term "novel" with gymnastic flexibility.) You are hereby saved the trouble of reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani...
...Almost all of the stated goals of the program are not focused on Arab culture,” Mottahedeh said. “Most Muslims live east of the meridian of Karachi, [Pakistan...
...that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second) is far less arbitrary of a unit than a yard. (Then again, to be fair, the meter was originally defined as “one ten-millionth of the length of the earth’s meridian along a quadrant...