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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned. It is important, she tells me, not to "outshine the client" by "being a superstar"--again, remaining apolitical is the consultant's key to helping client staff change things...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Consulting Consultants | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...brass at Fidelity will cry foul, as may the entire mutual-fund industry, which is in sore need of a new superstar. But here goes, anyway: Give it up, Peter Lynch. This stuff about never having worked on a computer and wanting little to do with technology stocks is stale. Very stale. You've got good company in Warren Buffett, another totemic technophobe. And I'm not saying to load up exclusively on tech stocks. But it's plain silly to encourage plain folks to avoid them. They're not that difficult to understand. If you can figure out Maytag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech That, Peter | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Brown superstar Katie Cowan was able to win the 1,000-freestyle, which followed the first relay, but sophomores Tina Weiner and Rebekah Lorenz, along with freshman Meaghan Casey, countered that victory by finishing second through fourth, cutting Brown's gain from the race down to one point...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Stops Brown, Improves to Perfect 4-0 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Ultimately, this Superstar abuses the talent of many of the people involved, undermining their work with direction that fails to transcend a simple staged reading. And although there are numerous opportunities for the production to overcome some of its weaknesses, the thick fog on stage during the show's opening moments seems to roll into the audience and remain there until the final curtain falls...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All That Buzz: the Son of God in Song and Dance | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Guess who the producer of the actual band will be? That's right, Lou Pearlman, founder of 'NSync, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. ABC and Jive are both betting on "O-Town" to be a mega-success. Check out www.bunim-murray.com for more info on how you can be a superstar... (I'm assuming that you have to be white, be from either Kentucky or Idaho, go to church, can't swear, can't be fat, have to be able to lip synch...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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