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...that superficial? Do we really care so much about how we look? We certainly do. I need not launch another campaign against Calvin Klein to make the point that thinness is in. Whether we like it or not, in this country, a weight craze is increasingly widespread. While each gender is undoubtedly affected differently, this article does not seek to examine the sexism pervading the issue of weight and physique. Societal chauvinism is inevitable and such a discussion would require at the very least its own editorial. But in the U.S., maintaining a low weight is not merely a social...
...capitalized [paid for] in 120 days." Making shrewd use of capital is Bollenbach's forte. In 1993 he fashioned an elegant solution to quite a different problem: saving Marriott Corp. from collapsing in debt by splitting it into two companies. In 1989, as CFO of Holiday Corp., he helped launch a subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook for $650 million before Bollenbach...
...keep it that low, and what will happen to the body with that kind of treatment?" There's the real possibility that the therapy will prove too toxic to continue for very long. Or that HIV may find hiding places in the body from which it can eventually launch devastating counterattacks...
...person boats, to take four out of five gold medals in the 1995 world championships. All conversations with the Eight, somehow, lead to Buschbacher; his is the only opinion that matters. When he addresses the team, each woman grows perfectly still; when he follows the boat in his launch, shouting out a steady stream of corrections, interrupted by the occasional, "Ja, that was good," they hardly dare look at him. Every so often, Buschbacher lets his tough-guy mask slip and acknowledges that his team is the best, the strongest, that the race is theirs to lose...
While Epps has offered to launch a search for an administrator for PBHA and include students on the search committee, he still insists that such an administrator must report to Harvard's administration, not the governing board of PBHA...