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...among the top software entertainment programs this Christmas. Unlike such shoot-'em-up, beat-'em-up boy toys as Doom and Mortal Kombat, the Barbie titles are notably pacific and based on creative play. "The demand will be many times higher than Mattel thinks it will be," predicts Gary Jacobson, a senior vice president at the brokerage Jefferies & Co., who has followed Mattel for a decade. "The orders [from retailers] are large...
...review comes on the heels of reports this summer, first published in The Crimson and then in The Wall Street Journal, of the ballooning salary and compensation packages given the HMC managers, including Jonathon Jacobson, who earned $6.1 million last year...
...Jacobson's pay for this year represents bonuses complied from several years of "exemplary" performance, Rudenstine said...
...this successful work, four of HMC's managers earned between $1 million and $3.7 million in salary and bonuses for fiscal year 1995. A fifth employee, Jonathon S. Jacobson, raked in $6.1 million for managing approximately one-tenth of Harvard's $8 billion endowment. This high level of compensation is warranted if they are necessary to maximize the return on the University's investments. President Neil L. Rudenstine, who often seems to know more about monetary affairs than any other aspect of Harvard life, defends HMC as "very cost-effective...
...swift and astounding reading, even if we have heard most of it before. Open either book at will and encounter the drunken Black Jack Bouvier perhaps too attached to his beautiful and precocious daughter; the eager Jack Kennedy pressing himself upon every woman he meets; Max ("Dr. Feelgood") Jacobson administering his amphetamine potions to both President and First Lady. Marilyn Monroe makes her usual cameo, and we are offered fresh evidence that Jackie really did have a knack for shopping...