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Tough love is a very fitting description for the Chicago native's eBay tenure so far. In the nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay's 16,000 workers worldwide--a way to boost efficiency in a tougher economic climate...
...Chicago No News Is Bad News The Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Cubs, among other properties, filed for bankruptcy on Dec. 8, less than a year after billionaire Samuel Zell took the media conglomerate private. Zell's purchase left the company with $13.4 billion in debt, which it was unable to overcome because of the economic crisis and the dire state of the newspaper industry...
USAGE: "The HR office has probably never encountered this before: People across the country are being urged to skip work Wednesday after calling in 'gay.'" --Chicago Tribune...
...Sources: Chicago Tribune; AFP; Wall Street Journal; AP; BBC; Los Angeles Times; Comedy Central...
...knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims"--even to refute such a notion-- is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have been more accurate and thoughtful to have said that some Jews found a way to fight back, and did. Richard Allen Cohen, CHICAGO...