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...found in it.” There are songs, such as “The Company Way,” that are applicable to future cubicle residents, as well as laughs at amusing corporate stereotypes, including the dumb blonde secretary who sleeps her way through the company and the boss who is overly fond of his alma mater, “Old Ivy.” “It’s going to be extremely ridiculous, fun and goofy, and a great way for people to end their semester,” Li says. With Harvard?...
...rules of romantic comedy stipulate that Kate must stumble across, initially resist, then fall into the arms of a perfect guy. That would be Rob (Greg Kinnear), who runs a fruit-drink shop in the neighborhood where Kate?s boss is erecting one of his pricey stores. Fortunately, that subplot lasts for about three minutes, and Kinnear can return to exuding his trademark mixture of blithe assurance and brow-furrowing self-depreciation. For this attractive actor, it?s a blessing and a curse: he?s got the perfect romantic-comedy skills, but he?s in the one decade when...
...Federici hardly reveled in the limelight. The E Street Band keyboardist--he played organ, accordion and glockenspiel, as the situation demanded--would arrive just in time for shows, then duck out as soon as they finished, leading Bruce Springsteen to call him "Phantom Dan." He first played alongside the Boss in clubs on the New Jersey Shore in the 1960s, and his signature sound can be heard on many of Springsteen's hits, notably 1973's 4th of July, Asbury Park and 1980's Hungry Heart. Federici was a "pure natural musician," Springsteen wrote in a message on his website...
...enormously. Either as a boss or as an employee, it can be very harmful. For example, if your boss on a Monday asks you to do five tasks by Friday, and you spend until Friday morning getting the first task perfect and can't get to the other four tasks, how happy do you think your boss is going to be? And if you are a perfectionistic boss, you're going to have very high turnover rates. I think a lot of people at work have to learn how to distinguish between a perfect job and a good enough...
...said that teacher input was hard to come by with Fowler-Finn—who has been described as a “top-down” administrator—at the helm. “If you don’t walk the walk of the boss, then you are subject to not have your job,” he said. While some have bemoaned the emphasis on testing, Fowler-Finn compared the necessity of imparting knowledge that will be tested on state exams to preparing for a driving test. “There are things the student...