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...awesome poverty. He was also a fatalist. Once, reflecting on his service for Pakistan in the 1965 war with India over Kashmir, he observed: "There is no scientific explanation for a man to die or live. In front of me many people died, but I got a bonus of life." He used that bonus well, but last week...
GLAD Day, as it turned out, had a hidden bonus that its organizers had not expected. More than raising the "awareness" of the general Harvard community, it reassured and brought out many once-fearful gay students on campus. "GLAD Day showed the closeted gay people there were a lot of gay people out here." Flaherty says. It also clued in non-gays to the sheer number of gays on campus. And, as many students suddenly became aware that their friends were gay, they were less cavalier about telling what Schatz calls "fag jokes." After GLAD Day, GOOD organizers could...
McCardell, an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a veteran of Ford Motor Co. as well as Xerox, was brought in to give International Harvester that shakeup. The firm agreed to pay him a salary of $460,000, a $1.5 million signing bonus and a $1.8 million loan at 6% interest. The loan was to be used to buy Harvester stock, and the company promised to turn it into a gift if McCardell increased International Harvester's financial performance beyond that of the average of its six main competitors...
...BONUS QUESTION: Joe Early was Bill Veeck's night watchman in Cleveland. Veeck threw a "Good Old Joe Early Night" for his employee after he complained that only ballplayers who didn't need gifts were lavished with them on special days and nights...
...BONUS QUESTION: Who was Joe Early...