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...married at the time. After a lunch together, which in her words “was the longest in the history of mankind,” and dinner later that evening, Jack and the future Mrs. Welch realized their relationship was a romantic one.The next day, she called her boss Walter Kiechel ’68, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publications, to tell him that he should pull the article she had written on Jack Welch. Four months later, she resigned.“I was fired,” she says now. “They would...
...report" on real events whose participants don't know they're speaking to actors. This may be the most highly hyphenated sitcom ever--scripted-improv-reality-mockumentary--but it's highly entertaining. Focusing on the bitter rivalry between an intern turned producer (Andrea Savage, above left) and her former boss-lover (Matt Walsh, above, second from left), it may even be funnier than your local newscast...
...there is no guarantee that Paulson can live up to his reputation as a get-it-done boss. "We'll have to see if he signed a pre-nup," says Ethan Harris, chief economist at Lehman Brothers. That's a pointed reference to the limited role that Snow was allowed to play in shaping economic policy under Bush, who has preferred to keep his own counsel and that of Vice President Cheney and top adviser Karl Rove. Snow was widely seen as a pitchman for policies that others wrote...
...Liberal party, are getting a little taste of life after Howard and a carefully managed introduction to his natural successor. So far-ignoring Labor's hysterics in Parliament-it seems that little would change if Howard called it quits. Why? Because Costello has modeled himself on his boss, and because the government's strategists are unlikely to mess with a winning formula...
...sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron chairs and talking about 'dog eat dog' and 'killing the competition.' Only he's for real. He's actually killed people." Semko's swagger leads Steadman into an increasingly unethical and dangerous ascent...