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Within the past month, riot-geared officers wielding clubs and pepper spray forced their way into the student-occupied chancellor's office of the University of Wisconsin, arresting more than 50 protesters as dawn broke over the campus...
DEAR AMY: My teenage daughter broke up with her boyfriend, and she's taking it hard--like Fatal Attraction hard. She calls him, cries, sees him in school, cries, writes him, cries and just can't seem to get over it. Two of her girlfriends have told me she should see a therapist. I just wonder: What happened to working things out for yourself? Are we really helping kids by carting them off to one specialist after another? --A Worried...
...second-time lucky for Jain, who trained to be an engineer at Columbia University. In 1995, Ravi Database, the software-services company he founded in 1992, went broke. Chastened, Jain embarked on a soul-searching sabbatical in the U.S. What he found was inspiration. Jain noticed that thousands of Indian expatriates had little access to news from home. He figured the Internet was the ideal delivery system...
...driving and aggressive--like Napoleon--with large eyes that can fix the most powerful gaze on you." When he gazed at Airbus, Leahy saw a stuffy organization in need of a shake-up. One of Leahy's American-style innovations, says this official, was the open office. "He literally broke down the walls between the sales guys, the contract guys and the airline analysts, and put them together in regional units. The results speak for themselves." Says another colleague: "Once John sinks his teeth into a project, he never gives...
...plan unleashed a fire storm: six lawsuits; separate investigations by the FTC and the states of New York and Michigan; and a mess of bad press. But it wasn't until the company's stock plunged and two key business partners--Altavista and Kozmo--broke ranks that DoubleClick finally backed down. "I made a mistake," said CEO Kevin O'Connor, whose $1.7 billion purchase last fall of tracking data from Abacus Direct alerted privacy watchdogs that something was afoot...