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...Arthur Rubinstein's career was a gaudy parade of superlatives. After Vladimir Horowitz, he was the 20th century's most famous classical pianist as well as a world-renowned bon vivant on speaking terms with everyone from Henry James to Golda Meir. In old age he wrote two best-selling memoirs that recounted a Kennedyesque sex life. He played his last concert in 1976 at the age of 89--then left his wife for another woman...
...limited-edition The Rubinstein Collection (list price: $1,600) is perhaps the biggest box set ever devoted to a single artist. It contains 706 recordings made between 1928 and 1976, including most of the music of Chopin, three versions of the complete Beethoven piano concertos and plenty of chamber music, plus a 305-page booklet full of adoring essays by admiring colleagues, critics and relatives...
...managerial flow chart is simple: Jonathan Ive runs the design group. Avi Tevanian runs software. Jon Rubinstein runs engineering. Tim Cook runs manufacturing. And senior vice president of worldwide sales Mitch Mandich--perhaps the company's true secret weapon--pulls it all together. Result? Apple, according to Charles Wolf, a senior analyst at Warburg, Dillon Read, has become a model of manufacturing efficiency, reducing inventory from $2 billion in early '96 to $17 million today...
CLASSICAL Arthur Rubinstein's career is celebrated in A Life in Music (RCA Red Seal...
...developmental insights were launched. In this second Jobs era, says Ive, Apple products are designed "holistically," each aspect of development altering every other as the project evolves, the design group producing first sketches, then computer work-ups and finally physical prototypes in a perpetual rondelet with the software guys, Rubinstein's hardware jocks and Jobs, who was a continual presence during the iBook's 18-month gestation...