Word: careers
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...high school reunion, it's awesome. You don't have to awkwardly walk up to anyone, because all the pretty girls and cool guys awkwardly walk up to you and tell you that their tenuous connection to you makes them proud. Sure, they're referring not to your journalism career but to the fact that they saw you on E! at the gym with the sound turned off, but after a few Coors Lights, this does not bother you at all. The only downside is that your good friend Colleen, who prepartied pretty hard, spends much of the night yelling...
...colleagues. But he also harbored a secret deeper than a love of bourbon: from a very early age, Penner felt that his male genitalia had been misassigned--and that he was, in the most meaningful ways, a woman. In 2007, after 23 years in the business--a career that included covering the Olympics along with professional baseball and football--Penner shocked the sports world by revealing in a 2007 column that after "extensive therapy," he was preparing to begin a new life as Christine Daniels. For reasons that aren't clear, it didn't work out. Penner wrote as Christine...
...Francisco with her neurosurgeon husband, her transformation of eBay from a midsize start-up into a high-tech powerhouse while raising two boys, her postretirement role as an adviser to Mitt Romney and later Senator John McCain during his presidential campaign. "They inspired me to think beyond a career in business," Whitman said...
Whitman later said she was "focused on raising a family" as well as "on my husband's career" by way of explanation of her spotty record, even as it trickled out that her voting history was slightly better than initially depicted. Not surprisingly, the "working mother" excuse sent feminists into a tizzy and created doubts for some of Whitman's base of Republican women. "I raised a family and ran a business and still managed to vote," sniffed Elaine Henderson, who went to hear Whitman speak in Rancho Mirage. "I'm just not happy with her explanation. I'd like...
Houghton is also an active member of several boards of directors of various companies, and the current chairman of the board of trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon graduating from Harvard Business School in 1962, Houghton spent much of his professional career at Corning Incorporated—a maker of specialty glass and ceramics—where he eventually rose to the top posts of chairman and CEO in in 1983, and again...