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...ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood relegated blacks, actors and actresses, to the corner of the frame, to menial roles, to dialogue that usually ran the tiniest variations on "Yes, boss" and "Now see here, Miss Scarlett...
...DeLay gives few foreign policy speeches and when he does they're usually on issues the Right holds dear, like sanctioning China for human rights abuses or maintaining the embargo on Cuba. DeLay aides say their boss worried that the White House was getting too much pressure from Israel's enemies in the Arab world, many of whom were demanding that Sharon lift his military siege of the occupied territories. "DeLay wanted to draw a line in the sand" and stake out the position of Republican conservatives in the crisis, said one of his staffers. "The White House needed...
These antics would not seem to recommend Cuban as a boss or business partner. But people who work with him seem mostly bemused by Mad Mark. He doesn't keep office hours. He constantly fires off ideas and instructions by e-mail--one passing along a fan's complaint about the hot dogs at Mavs games, the next negotiating an expansion of HDNet. Says Terdema Ussery, CEO of the Mavericks and HDNet: "When he first came, Mark used to say people have to decide if they can stay on this train because it moves very fast." Phil Garvin...
...boasts of the Mavs' winning record, arguing that NBA basketball is not about winning so much as entertainment. That includes the usual dancers in skimpy outfits, kids competing in free-throw contests and goofy advertiser promotions during time-outs--all backed by throbbing music, often suggested by the boss. He plans to install a wireless network so fans can bring their laptops and download images and stats during the game--or perhaps just instant-message the cute...
...Summers even went so far as to ask West to “check in” with him every few months and update him on the process of his academic work. West certainly is not above being questioned by the president of this University; Summers is indeed his boss. However, Summers had no right to show such blatant disrespect to a man that is the second most cited scholar in his field and the fourth most cited of Harvard’s 16 University Professors. I am quite sure that he has not asked the other 15 to check...