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Then, my father's boss, Jan Masaryk--foreign minister of what was then Czechoslovakia--was told by Stalin in Moscow that his country must not participate in the Marshall Plan, despite its national interest in doing so. Upon his return to Prague, Masaryk said it was at that moment, he understood he was employed by a government no longer sovereign in its own land...
...accoutrements: a director bred on Madison Avenue, a Lego-assembly plot about escaping from a confined space, a lot of chatty male attitude, a dogged belief that car crashes and gay men are hilarious, and the near invisibility of women. After a sneak preview, Disney boss Michael Eisner told Bruckheimer, "Don would have loved this movie...
...power may be out of the reach of the many, but the nascent commodity of information needn't be. With the click of a search engine, anyone with a computer can access information that, until recently, was available solely to those wealthy enough to pay research assistants. Think your boss is taking advantage of you? Within minutes you can wave a complete copy of your company's labor relations history in his face...
Widlanski describes Knowles's lab as a congenial place, with a boss who insisted all the students call him "Jeremy." Many of those graduate students are now tenured professors themselves--a distinction which reflects on their dissertation adviser's ability as a mentor...
Despite the spate of rumors, Tarses says she has been reassured that her job is not in jeopardy. "Basically I've been assured I'll be given time to fail," she says. That is echoed by her boss, ABC president Robert Iger. "The speculation as to whether we're happy or unhappy with her is ridiculously premature," says Iger. "She has my support. We have a very talented person in Jamie Tarses, and as far as we're concerned she's the right person for that job." Still, Tarses is realistic--or fatalistic--enough to know that such support could...