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...Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management had been ripped off from an obscure engineering work published more than 60 years ago. Then, when it turned out that other rules had been lifted from the precepts of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and humorist Dave Barry, the episode became a full-blown public relations disaster for the CEO of Raytheon, a defense contractor based in Waltham, Mass., that has 80,000 employees and more than $22 billion in annual sales. By last week a chastened Swanson apologized at the annual shareholders' meeting, and Raytheon's board docked him the equivalent...
...What an idiot,” you must be thinking. What blown opportunities! So imagine my embarrassment when my Grandma Joan, went up to him one day and asked him to sign her VHS copy of “The Air Up There...
...months, why have Western negotiators recently started pushing so hard to to make warring factions strike a peace deal? Perhaps because of the very real possibility that unless a deal is agreed to soon - in the next few days - the violence in Darfur will grow into a full-blown regional conflict, sucking in countries such as Chad and the Central African Republic. And if that were to happen, Western powers and the United Nations know pressure for international intervention will only grow...
Page 12 of Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel “The Princess Diaries” reads: “There isn’t a single inch of me that hasn’t been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. [...] Because I don’t look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights. Mia Thermopolis never wore makeup or Gucci shoes or Chanel skirts or Christian Dior bras, which by the way don’t even come in 32A, which...
...charged with breaking and entering into a motor vehicle with the intent to commit a felony and disorderly conduct, according to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesman Steven G. Catalano. Rodger, 20, told The Crimson yesterday that his charges had been dismissed. “The whole thing was blown out of proportion,” he said. “And the actions were the result of the tenseness of the situation.” Around 1:15 a.m. Sunday, HUPD accompanied an ambulance to Currier to assist a sick student. While an HUPD officer and EMT were entering...