Word: arrogante
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The richest woman around has been in mourning for her late husband so long that her sorrow has become a career. Her family can't console her; the managers of the conglomerate she heads are afraid to challenge her. Then her death-in-life is changed by a humble--actually...
Chambers learned those lessons at IBM and Wang Laboratories, successful companies that staggered under the pressure of growth. At Wang he had to fire 4,000 employees. It left a mark. "Everyone makes the same mistakes," he says. "They get too far from customers and too arrogant."
Editor-in-chief Barbara S. Okun '86 told The Crimson that Whitla ordered the editors to eliminate the words "condescending" and "arrogant" from descriptions of professors.
Several of the minor players shine in their roles. Georgia Shao-Chi Lee '98 is consistently likable, sensual and amusing as Moon Beauty, the prostitute who takes in Hawk and Little Jade. Chan is quite good as the tortured, Byronic Wang Kuilong. Li, as Chief Yang, wavers between a delightfully...
Charles occasionally wrote letters to his son and sent books by Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. "The letters seemed strange and alienating," recalls Lachenmeyer, then a student at the University of Chicago. "Now I've learned what a remarkable exercise in self-control they were." Because during this period his father's...