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...pilots," she says. "The grades are given out regardless of race and gender. It's satisfying to see that women in the cockpit are now unremarkable within the pilot world." She doesn't think she approaches her job differently than a man, except perhaps in one respect. "I'll admit when I don't know something," she says, laughing. "I'm not sure some of my colleagues would think that's a career-enhancing style...
...then this: A survey by Starwood Hotels & Resorts showed that 82% of CEOS admit to cheating at golf. The same percentage hate others who do the same. "We're in a period of corporate Watergate, and Nixons are popping up all over," says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas. Qualified executives are turning down CEO offers out of fear they might be taking the helm of a firm about to crumble under some new accounting fraud, impeding the searches of even the cleanest firms. Among those looking for a new CEO are Gap and J. Crew...
Rather than admit failure, Jefferson devised a solution any spinning politician would recognize: he changed objectives. The expedition, he advised Congress, "has had all the success which could have been expected." Its goal, he said, was actually the understanding "of numerous tribes of Indians hitherto unknown," not to mention examining the trunkloads of specimens of plants and animals that Lewis and Clark had collected along...
...Apparently not. In his Middle East speech last week, the President urged the Palestinians to replace their current leaders (read Arafat) with ones "not compromised by terror." Once that occurs, he said, the U.S. will recognize a Palestinian state and pressure Israel to do likewise. But some Administration officials admit there's no blueprint for moving Arafat along. Concedes a White House aide: "Some of these tactical aspects we are still working...
...look for reasons to admit,” Miller said. “This is not a time to be modest...