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...have fallen short on the field, but he's hitting a six in the suites. Tellabs, the Naperville, Ill., telecom-gear maker (2003 sales: $980 million) that sells data systems and voice enhancers, recently named him CEO. The board is betting on a repeat. When Prabhu, 49, was boss of Alcatel USA, a division of the French telco, revenues increased fivefold, to about $5 billion, over his three-year tenure...
...even as Western cities gird for more carnage, reports from Western Pakistan claim that al-Qaeda's Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri has been surrounded and that his boss can't be far behind. Pakistani officials began to backpedal on some of those claims, Friday, conceding that it was based simply on the intensity of the resistance they're encountering on their sweep through a tribal area in the hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives. Still, the head of France's military announced on Monday that Osama bin Laden had more than once in recent weeks narrowly escaped from French troops...
...neck and slammed against a wall, I was generally not subjected to physical violence. The mafia employ not physical, but psychological warfare to marginalize targets while solidifying the preeminence of their group—in my case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian, active disparagement of the Irish-American—these are the tommy guns in the Doorman Mafia’s violin cases...
...gives [illegal workers] amnesty for just two years and they’re under the power of their boss. They can get kicked out after two years...
...with a shortage of workers. After years of cutbacks, BNSF plans to hire 1,600 employees this year and 1,000 more in each of the next five years. "I don't know if this is railroad's new Golden Age," says BNSF's boss, "but we haven't suffered the carnage of other businesses like steel and the airlines." Not that Rose doesn't dream big. Eventually, he says, the country's railroads won't be divided between East and West, and there will be a true transcontinental network. Then the big boards at the NOC will really...