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...neither rhetorical nor inflated. A September report from the Economic Policy Institute ranked Boston as the most expensive city in the nation. In 2004, a family of four in Boston required $64,656 to pay for basic needs. Housing prices in 2004 were 40 percent higher than in Chicago or Miami. The most common objection to a substantially higher living wage for Harvard janitors asserts that the school will not be able to afford as many janitors because of its fixed operating budget. Harvard’s operating budget is a choice, however. Harvard is not a publicly traded company...
...hear much complaint from Rosenhaus' clients, however. "You got a guy that basically sacrifices his personal life for his clients," says the Chicago Bears' Adewale Ogunleye. "He gives everybody the first-class treatment." And that often means taking on the owners on behalf of his players...
...Clive Owen, anything is possible.The “thrilling” plot—which aspires to twist and turn but really lurches and falls off the tracks—is, ostensibly, the story of dissatisfied corporate executives Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) who meet on a Chicago train and cautiously flirt before attempting an affair. Their unfaithful tryst is interrupted by a mugger who beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda; the mugger is actually an overtly villainous and obnoxiously French criminal, Phillippe Laroche (Vincent Cassell) who, with the help of sidekick Dexter (Xzibit...
...mother who shamed her family by taking a job as an insurance agent while Ho's father attended school. Hauling Ho and her brother on a moped to make sales calls, Ho's mother became the top agent-but quit her career to join her husband in Chicago. She encouraged her gifted daughter but chided her never to boast of her accomplishments. Ho entered the corporate world an unwitting embodiment of stereotypical Asian female behavior-"diminutive, submissive, that whole geisha thing you get tagged with...
Some of that informality reveals the influence of Silicon Valley, where Zander spent more than 15 years at Sun Microsystems and then a private equity firm. He is trying to bring some of the Valley's spirit to the Chicago suburbs. He has challenged everyone--not just the mobile-phone designers--to come up with Motorola's next iconic product. Rau says his team was inspired by the Razr to develop the "zero-footprint base station," equipment for mobile-phone carriers that takes up less real estate than a standard cell-phone tower...