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Carroll consistently draws roars of laughter from his audiences. “The best bet at a club is to go for the funny stuff,” Carroll said, but he added that most of The Petting Zoo is “pretty serious...
...situation is getting worse. The data, collected in three studies over eight years at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, also reveal that 20% of employees say they are victims of incivility on a weekly basis. Should managers be kinder and gentler? You bet, says author Christine Porath, assistant professor of management, because "incivility has detrimental consequences. Does performance decrease? Yes. Does creativity suffer? Yes. People just don't concentrate." Turnover results too: 1 in 8 employees who experience rudeness ends up leaving. The biggest surprise: the study estimates that the average FORTUNE 1000 executive...
...Stonecipher pointed to another European government-backed plane that never made a profit and has been grounded. "The A380 is a great engineering success, but so was the Concorde. The A380 could be a market disaster," he said. Analyst Richard Aboulafia of Virginia's Teal Group agrees: "Airbus bet wrong on the A380, and the 787 is a major competitive threat...
...Allawi's best bet would be to draw the Kurds into his own bloc. But the Kurds, secular and seperatist, they are hardly natural allies for the moderate Islamist-nationalist UIA list assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Still, they may see the Sistani list as a more viable government, if they can strike a deal that gives the Shiites the power they seek in Baghdad in exchange for de facto Kurdish independence in the northern provinces - largely at the expense of Sunni Arabs and ethnic Turkmen in Kirkuk and other contested areas. Ultimately, however, the Kurds...
...McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other comics might beg for love; Carson accepted the laughs, but, I'll bet, didn't need them to warm his needy heart. What need? Some would say, what heart? Remember that sang froid means cold blood...