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...that he is wearing the sandwich on his head. As I learned from the six-year-olds seated around me, this is very, very funny. The voices cast for the movie suggest some attempts at appeasing an older audience. In addition to Dick Van Dyke, Ted’s boss, we are treated to Drew Barrymore as Ted’s love interest, and the ubiquitous Will Ferrell voicing Ted himself. Ferrell delivers his trademark inflection and comic timing, and was far less distracting than I expected. The spirit of the movie can be summed up in its soundtrack. Jack...
...confirm their early assessment of the dean: that he was appointed by Summers to extend the central administration’s influence over their school.As Summers has gone about preparing his filet, even setting off small kitchen fires in the process, Kirby has found himself awkwardly caught between his boss and his Faculty, who have resolved to resist the president. The standoff ended over intersession, when the dean announced he would step down at the end of the academic year, but the tension that cost Kirby his job was four years in the making.Even those with front-row seats...
...newcomers quizzed established coaches on everything from confidentiality to marketing. "Much of it goes against our training, having to focus on group dynamics instead of the individual," says Kerry Sulkowicz, a psychiatrist. Another presenter, Kathleen Pogue White, says a constant challenge is patients who show up only because the boss orders it. In one case, she had to figure out how to nudge a manager to improve his sales numbers after his supervisor, another client, confided that the manager would be axed otherwise...
...Friday, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby resigned from his administrative post, a decision that surprised few within the College. Kirby’s tenure has been dogged by rumors of a strained relationship with his boss, University President Lawrence H. Summers, and, as of late, that Summers had plans to remove Kirby from his position. According to a source who spoke to The Harvard Crimson, the announcement had been in the works since last winter, and Summers was just waiting for a “tenable” moment...
...Campaign Committee. But other insiders were less sanguine about the prospects in November. "Scandal trumps all," said one senior Republican aide, "that's the problem." Democrats, for their part, are happy with the outcome. As Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, put it, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...