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...groups for minorities 15 years ago. But when Elam, 44, took the helm as chief diversity officer three years ago, she recognized a specific need to improve GE's record in retaining and promoting minority women. She launched the Multicultural Women's Initiative, among whose programs is an annual boot camp that teaches the secrets of success to promising minority women. Since its inception three years ago, one-third of attendees have received promotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race, Gender & Work: Pathways to Power | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...Rome that the growing brazenness of 'Ndrangheta could escalate into a bloody war against national authority, like the one that erupted in the 1980s when the Cosa Nostra sought to tighten its hold on Sicilian society and politics. Life is already bleak on this southern tip of Italy's boot-shaped peninsula. The honest people of Calabria struggle just to get by in one of Europe's most economically depressed corners, where nearly 25% of families live below the poverty line. Meanwhile, the region's mob bosses are ruthlessly expanding their empire. Once considered less sophisticated and less organized than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Comes To Locri | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...Costa (Bruno Campos). Christian invited him to join in on the sexcapades with Kimber and Kit only to discover that his fellow surgeon is a bisexual – a bisexual attracted to Dr. Troy. At least Quentin’s faux pas convinced Christian to give Kit the boot, at least for now, in favor of a commitment to Kimber...

Author: By Alex C. Britell and Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TV Watch | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...sharp, the student group that had reserved Loker for the next hour filed in and courteously gave RUS the boot...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room for Improvement | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...contrast to last year’s preoccupation with ’50s Technicolor pertness, this year’s fall fashion shows have been dominated by a particularly goth aesthetic. Not a combat-boot, free-verse poetry type of goth, but the distinctly Victorian elegance of a preserved moth or an Ann Radcliffe novel...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Trend is Nigh: Teaching Fashion Aptitude | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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