Word: bossed
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...same day, Bush all but spurned offers of help from allies because of the way it would look. "I'm sure he saw it as a sign of American weakness to be taking aid from other countries," says the former Administration official. A Bush aide countered that his boss "wasn't rejecting offers; he wasn't focused...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN songs may mostly remind fans of their proms. But more than 500 academics, clergy and journalists planning to attend a conference at Monmouth University in New Jersey this week think the Boss warrants deeper reflection. Papers to be presented at Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium include "A Marxist Perspective on Darkness on the Edge of Town," "Steinbeck and Springsteen" and "The Boss and the Bible." Speakers include rock critic Dave Marsh, touted as a "Louie Louie expert," and Frank Stefanko, who has photographed Springsteen a lot. Attendees may also visit the Stone Pony, Springsteen's storied hometown...
...outgoing staff member keen to retain contacts - could nab an entire client database, according to computer-security firm Centennial Software. Late last year, one London recruitment agency worker poached the firm's client base with his iPod, before launching a rival company. So what's the company IT boss to do? Squeezing superglue into USB ports (as some have done) is no long-term fix. The devices should be "prohibited where confidential information could leak out," says David Friedlander, senior analyst at tech consultants Forrester Research EMEA in Amsterdam. Some security-minded organizations have done just that. Britain's Ministry...
...whites. After the memo emerged, Rehnquist drafted a letter to a Senate ally in which he claimed that Jackson, by then deceased, had requested the memo "as a rough draft of a statement of his views." When contacted by a reporter, Jackson's former secretary denied that her boss ever supported Plessy; later, Jackson scholar Dennis Hutchinson of the University of Chicago told the New York Times that the Justice never asked his clerks to summarize his views. "An absurd explanation," Hutchinson said. In 2001, after his own political leanings had tacked left, former Nixon aide Dean ended his book...
...Your story portrayed rice as a very intelligent person with a gift for communicating [Aug. 15]. Unfortunately, such highly qualified people often have their head in the clouds. They formulate theories for solving complicated problems, and sometimes they are influenced by self-interest or the need to follow the boss's line. That appears to be the case with Rice. I understand that decisions are not made without lots of in-depth study and that Rice is not alone when a policy is hammered out and implemented. But the basic premises of a policy should be inherently sound...