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...clearly understands the missions of the University and believes that the work it is doing is important,” University spokesman John D. Longbrake said of his boss. “If anyone belongs at a university, it’s Alan...
...employment law firm Fisher & Phillips. Clothes can also hamstring careers. Barbara Pachter, a top business-etiquette coach, boils it down to fit (avoid too-short skirts or too-tight anything), accessories (particularly footwear), color (when in doubt, go with darks) and style (when in doubt, dress like the boss). The No. 1 mistake: looking too sexy. "Cleavage," she says, "is not a corporate look." Neither are toes...
...Chertoff has been ordered by Congress to put up fences, and the the goal is nearly 700 miles by the end of the year. After scheduling 18 town hall meetings to explain the fence-building plan - and making scant headway in changing public opinion - the Homeland Security boss last month exercised a special authority to override local objections and federal environmental regulations. Some 600 landowners in the fence zone were ordered to make their property available for survey teams and construction crews...
...Saturday morning that Senator Ted Kennedy was rushed to the hospital after having a seizure, I bumped into one of his staffers at the grocery store. Between the candy aisle and the magazines she marveled at her boss's limitless energy. "We were on the floor last week and two weeks before that," she told me, which we both knew is amazing considering how little legislation moves through the closely divided Senate in an election year...
...Also on display is the notorious "Dear Boss" letter, written in blood-red ink and sent to the Central News Agency. It purported to be from the murderer, promised more killings, and was signed, "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper." The letter was republished by many papers, though police considered it hoax, possibly written by a journalist. Still, the name stuck. "It seized the public's imagination," Hoffbrand says. It also resulted in a torrent of other gruesome - and probably fake - letters being sent to newspapers and police, each purporting to be from the killer...