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...from trying to score too much. "That was kind of our problem in '04. One guy could do this, another guy couldn't." Krzyzewski's vibe has fired up the team; the practices are crisp and competitive. "The way he can connect with everybody, it's unbelievable," says Brad Miller, Team USA big man (at 7 ft.), who plays for the Sacramento Kings. "I'd have our [NBA] team pay him a couple of grand to talk...
...scoring. "That was kind of our problem in '04 - one guy could do this, another guy couldn't." Krzyzewski's vibe has fired up the team; the practices are crisp and competitive. "I'd have our [NBA] team pay him a couple of grand to talk to us," says Brad Miller, a Team USA big man who plays for the Sacramento Kings. "The way he can connect with everybody, it's unbelievable...
...Brad, you'll have to up your ante. Krzyzewski commands up to $100,000 per speech; his name even graces an academic arm, the Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics at Duke. All this for a guy who manages tall people in shorts? "He talks about character issues that are soulful," says Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, whose managing directors - "a pretty cynical group," Mack notes - raved about a recent Krzyzewski speech. "It's about honesty, it's about love, and often times, in the big world, you don't see many leaders get up and talk about things like...
...Beatty, along with wife Annette Bening - as well as Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and others - had gathered at the palatial home of legendary producer Mike Medavoy to hear the investigative journalist speak about the current state of the Middle East and, specifically, Iran. Only recently released from an Iranian prison after serving a six-year sentence for "harming national security" and "spreading propaganda," Ganji, 47, is barnstorming the U.S. this summer to gain support for his reformist movement. He declined an invitation to the White House last month, claiming he doesn't represent a specific opposition party or faction...
...Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Evan H. Jacobs can be reached at ehjacobs@fas.harvard.edu...