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...Lansing points out that the ultimate test has not yet been met for women executives in Hollywood. She notes that there are no female Hollywood titans on the level of Disney's Michael Eisner or Viacom's Sumner Redstone. "The women I came up with," says Lansing, "we all got into this business to make movies, not to run corporations. But I think that right now at the Harvard Business School, there's some girl sitting there saying, 'I don't want Sherry Lansing's job. I want to be Sumner Redstone...
Under the agreement, the University promised to donate a parcel of land at 18 Sumner Rd. for a neighborhood park. Harvard also promised to forbid the use of CGIS for summer school and extension school classes for five years, and agreed to a decade-long moratorium on future construction for the Foxcroft-Bromley Court block, as well as five-year moratoria on the Gund Hall and Sackler Museum blocks...
There's nothing at all wrong with Connie Sumner's life. She's a doting mother with a loving husband and a lovely home in a leafy New York City suburb. Then one day she goes to Manhattan and quite by chance meets a sexy young Frenchman who deals in rare books. Steamy sex, guilt, retribution and manslaughter ensue. The movie: Unfaithful. The director: Adrian Lyne. Like his previous forays into adultery--Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal--this one is designed to provoke debate. Since the movie's opening on May 10, some critics have called it an exploitative morality...
...HUPD officers arrested 25-year-old Angelo Hernandez, of Cambridge, on Sumner Road for posessing marijuana...
Every socialite and CEO in Manhattan knows not to invite Sumner Redstone and Mel Karmazin to the same party. So when the twin egos of media giant Viacom unexpectedly shared the stage during a dinner for investors last Thursday, they generated quite a buzz. Some who have bet heavily on the success of Viacom--whose properties include CBS, MTV and Paramount studios--took heart that the feuding titans made a public show of getting along. "Their message was simple," Bear Stearns stock analyst Raymond Katz wrote in a report on Friday. "Their partnership, built on a mutuality of self-interest...