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...about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable men Wall Street and corporate America has ever seen" as well as an autocrat whose "obsession with his enemies at times bordered on paranoia...
...allowing Kessler to establish herself as the starting goaltender—and Kessler has taken full advantage of the opportunity.With new mental toughness developed by a disappointing freshman campaign and a clean bill of health after rigorous offseason training, Kessler has shown a marked improvement, displaying tremendous poise and cat-like agility around the net that have made her nearly impossible to get a puck past this season.“I think health brings a lot of confidence,” Stone says. “What I see is that she competes harder in practice. That?...
...long-term future of the 85-year-old institution called into question as it lurches from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations and job cuts. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote held to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry, Cookie, in favor of Socks) and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session...
...chief executive in 1997 in the midst of a growth spurt that saw Nestle double its sales, to $60 billion, in a decade and cement its position as the world's largest food company. With brands that include Stouffer's frozen dinners, Perrier and Pellegrino water, Nescafe coffee, Friskies cat food, Carnation milk, Buitoni pasta and After Eight chocolate mints, it's the leader in hundreds of product categories worldwide. But Brabeck isn't satisfied. "The most important role I have in this organization is fighting against complacency," he says. His overriding goal: to double Nestle's sales once again...
...Your Gears Turning There’s a 10 mile bike tour of Boston through the Stonybrook reservation and along Mother Brook this Saturday, led by the Boston Natural Areas Network. Saturday, Nov. 17. E-mail info@bostonnatural.org to sign up. 4) Big Daddy Says Go! “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is closing this Saturday at the Loeb Ex. Admission is free and you can use the money you save on tickets to buy some cheap whiskey after the show. 8:30 pm. Saturday, Nov. 17. Loeb Ex. Free. 5) Does this count...