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...previous boss took Nokia from creaky Finnish conglomerate to the world leader in mobile phones; Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will have to make sure it stays there. As former head of the phone unit and CFO, Kallasvuo, 52, has the operational chops to succeed longtime CEO Jorma Ollila next June. But the landscape is far different from the one Ollila dealt with: cell phones are ubiquitous, sales are slowing, and margins are thinning. Nokia needs more cutting-edge products, as its two closest rivals, Motorola and Samsung, ramp up their attacks. Still, Kallasvuo is a good bet to answer that call...
...being human," says West's obviously biased mother Donda, who recently retired from her post as chair of the English department at Chicago State University. "It's like Walt Whitman. 'Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.'" West's old boss, Damon Dash, puts it a little differently: "He combines the superficialness that the urban demographic needs with conscious rhymes for the kids with backpacks. It's brilliant business...
Assessing san antonio Archbishop Jose Gomez's clout, his former boss Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput says enthusiastically, "He gets listened to in the state of Texas and in the U.S. Bishops' Conference. He gets listened to in Rome. And I think he'll be listened to by the Federal Government when it comes to immigration law." Last year, Gomez was a humble auxiliary bishop working for Chaput in Denver. But in December, Pope John Paul II leapfrogged the low-key 53-year-old over hundreds of diocesan bishops into the San Antonio, Texas, seat-and the center of American Catholicism...
Keener is also perfect for naturally portraying a beautiful woman who isn’t beyond the reach of Andy. The rest of the cast (including Christopher-Guest-troop member Jane Lynch as Carell’s boss) satisfies the loon quota. “Virgin” rarely fails—an alcoholic driving scene is the only real miss—and it catches itself when it does...
...remember being uncharacteristically shy with Betsy, hesitant even to talk to her. One day, though, my boss asked me to read a hair-product commercial the station was recording. When I showed up in the studio, there stood my gorgeous redhead, ready to read the female part. After the final take, feeling frustrated by the exercise, I crumpled the script, threw it on the floor and fumed, "Who in the world writes this junk...