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Despite the apparent ease with which the Wallingford, Pennsylvania native has burst on the scene, Vankoski has surprised himself with his lofty numbers...
...same way that computer- generated program trading has done. Filtering trades through human hands and minds might be slightly sluggish and inefficient, but it can serve to add an element of stability (and occasionally even a moment of rationality) to a marketplace. Says Albert Sindlinger, who runs a Wallingford, Pa., investment- research firm bearing his name: "If the past is any indication of what computers will do to markets in the future, then we may all be in big trouble...
Calypso-flavored steel drumming is not the average class offering at Choate, where students dress like L.L. Bean models and carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...
Lizbeth and her 21 classmates from the steel band -- the city's only such school-based musical ensemble -- are in Wallingford to give a concert during Choate's Multicultural Day. Choate first became interested in the group last year when admissions director Andrew Wooden, 36, was visiting Burger to interview three potential students. "As I was walking through the hall, I heard the steel drum and was mesmerized by it," Wooden recalls. "When I got back to Choate we arranged for them to come here. This is a pretty sedate group, and the Burger kids had the place rocking...
...usual in the artistic world, today's new phenom is yesterday's hardworking apprentice. Anderson grew up in Wallingford, Conn., taking voice and dance lessons. She grew too tall to dance (today she stands 5 ft. 10 in.), but at 17 she was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions. She hated the process. "I'm determined, but I can't step on someone else to get ahead. I hated the competitiveness." Instead she went to Yale and majored in French literature, graduating in 1974. She gave herself two years to become famous and has been working at it ever...