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Since Cuno became Harvard’s art museums director in 1991, he has brought in a much-needed influx of money to the museums—which comprise the Fogg, the Arthur M. Sackler and the Busch-Reisinger—doubling the staff and budget of the organization...
...flow and profits. Now the company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. It will cut 17,000 jobs, about 25 percent of the work force, by Friday, and CFO Scott Sullivan has been fired over the accounting debacle. Also drawn in, once again, are the beleagured auditors at Arthur Andersen, who were in charge of monitoring WorldCom's books...
...only when the rinse cycle begins," a wise old friend of mine likes to say, "that you can tell how dirty the laundry really was." With Enron, Arthur Andersen, Henry Blodget and Dennis Kozlowski all sloshing back and forth in the muck, it has become clear to everyone that the late bull market in stocks was fueled partly with Potemkin profits, partly with bluster, partly with outright lies...
...study Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain won a Pulitzer Prize. They live in a tony neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass., a few blocks from Harvard, on so-called Professors' Row, which real estate agents refer to as the smart street because such high-IQ figures as John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. have called it home. It was a long leap from there back to Manhattan at mid-century...
...Broadway plays by some of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century; in New York City. In a 60-year theater career, Whitehead mounted premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, bringing democracy to the former Soviet satellite; in Sofia. Dzhurov was Bulgarian Defense Minister for 28 years...