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...conformity with the U.N. charter from our point of view ... it was illegal." KOFI ANNAN, U.N. Secretary-General, commenting on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in an interview with the BBC...
...research my book, Confidence, I analyzed the waxing and waning of confidence in dozens of organizations in various stages of success, decline, or turnaround—including Gillette, the BBC, and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa—to understand how leaders create the conditions for high performance. I studied 21 college and professional sports teams with long winning streaks or losing streaks, looking at what happened before and after pivotal games. I tested hypotheses about differences between perpetual winners and habitual losers through surveys of 1200 business leaders and 1500 high school athletes and coaches. It became...
Sources: New York Times (2); Miami Herald; ATHOC; New York Times (2); BBC...
...seen Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice before--as an MGM classic, a BBC mini-series and, last year, a modern-day Mormon movie. But Bride and Prejudice will mark the first time we've seen it go Bollywood. Director Gurinder Chadha enjoyed a surprise smash with Bend It like Beckham. Can she go from goal to gold? --By Richard Corliss...
...covers were emotive, but the depth of her feeling, at 16, was a tad suspicious. Where Jones, an ancient 25, shrewdly concedes the limitations of her experience by never oversinging her tidy little songs, Stone, a native of Devon, England, who signed a record deal after performing on a BBC talent show, heaved and trilled her way through Sessions as if she were still trying to impress the judges...