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...face of it, raising further the price of gasoline is an approach to energy-induced inflation that has little in common with common sense. Since the idea is not down-to-earth, Anderson is forced to appeal to an academic galaxy of stars from Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T., Wharton, Princeton, Georgetown, Michigan, even "Michael Evans of Evans Economics" himself...it is a crowded stump speech...
Born and raised in Montreal (he became a U.S. citizen in 1977), Zuckerman earned degrees at McGill University, Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. After a stint with Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, the large Boston real estate development firm, Zuckerman formed his own company, Boston Properties, whose holdings around the U.S. are now worth some $200 million. He also became an associate professor of city and regional planning at Harvard. A friend of four-term Boston Mayor Kevin White, Zuckerman was White's choice to build two large-scale renewal projects that were...
...executives will fairly soon accelerate. In U.S. graduate schools of business, one in five students working toward an M.B.A. degree is a woman. The percentage is larger in the elite universities. The share of women M.B.A. recipients in last spring's graduating classes was Stanford 24%, Dartmouth 25%, Wharton 26%, M.I.T. 28%, Northwestern 30%, Columbia...
...sense, Actress Geraldine Chaplin brings very little to her television role of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Says Chaplin about the bustled turn-of-the-century gowns she wears: "I get to have a behind, which I don't have in normal life." But Chaplin has little sympathy for Lily, who ignores love in favor of a convenient marriage and who snuffs herself out with chloral after her reputation is compromised. Says Chaplin, who for 13 years has lived uncompromisingly with Spanish Director Carlos Saura: "I like playing her. I wouldn...
Capital has worried Rosenthal ever since a family shortage of it back in Brooklyn during the Depression blocked him from entering Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He had to settle for N.Y.U., because his father, an up-and-down entrepreneur from Winnipeg, ran out of money. Rosenthal graduated summa, made an early splash on Wall Street, joined a group that took over a then bedraggled Citizens, and became its chief at 30. In the 34 years since then, the company has raised its profits and dividends every year...