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...Cheney's intransigence creates a p.r. dilemma at home, his boss caused one around the world with his State of the Union speech describing Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil." Though these may end up being the most memorable three words of the Bush presidency, they were inserted into his speech as an afterthought, a means of lifting Bush's rhetorical sights beyond his true target: Saddam Hussein. It was meant to be, as Hughes puts it, "a good quotable phrase," nothing more...
Bolker: It began because we had a wonderful boss at Expos, a man named Don Byker. When I was hired, Don said that one of the things he wanted me to do while I was here was to develop a skill I could take with me. “Therefore, you and Larry will design and open a writing center,” Don said. Larry and I and a third person set up office hours and we also ran workshops that were open to anyone in the University. There was a huge range of people, from this first-year...
Editors of the Harvard Business Review have demanded the resignation of their boss, alleging an affair she carried on with one of her sources has compromised the integrity of the publication...
FRANKS: My desire, and my boss's guidance to me, is that we are not about picking sides between potential foes in this...On the day of [Hamid] Karzai's inauguration...one of the opposition group leaders, with whom we had worked earlier in the fight, walked up to me from across the room, hugged me and said, "Who do you want me to fight now?" That's instructive, because there's a lot of that inside Afghanistan...
...critics say, perpetuate the old-boy network. Mueller has also shocked the troops by personally interviewing candidates for all upper-management and some key middle-management posts. Mueller loyalists say the ex-Marine handpicks young leaders whose passion for detail matches his own. His moves are backed by his boss, John Ashcroft. "The Attorney General has the utmost confidence in how [Mueller is] tackling the job," says Ashcroft aide Barbara Comstock...