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Cigar in hand, Jurgen Schrempp last spring was maintaining what had become a ritual on his regular visits to New York City--holding court at the St. Regis Hotel's King Cole Bar with a cluster of DaimlerChrysler's top executives. When an old business acquaintance wandered over to wish him well, Schrempp responded expansively with introductions to "my management board." The acquaintance shook all hands and then said with a chuckle, "But Jurgen, where are the Americans...
...there is something. Bush, who has already once in this race found coasting to be a fruitless endeavor, is trying it again after a cluster of potentially self-fulfilling polls - Americans love to pick a winner - showed him emerging from the debate season with a just-bigger-than-margin-of-error-sized lead. A little daylight. Ever since, Bush has been grinning, and the lead has been shrinking...
...discovered by trial and error is a balance between open and closed spaces, between individual work and collaborative effort. It is the compromise Brill is currently suggesting to his clients, adding to the mix the crucial element of choice. "We're recommending team spaces in the middle of a cluster of small private offices," he says. "If you open the door, you're in the team space. If it's shut...
...After briefly congratulating myself for penetrating one of the nation's last bastions of secrecy, I descended into shock. It wasn't that I was bowled over by the committee room - really just a cluster of windowless rooms in a basement - but that I suddenly realized my own admission to college was a total fluke. In adhering to the conventional wisdom dished out by parents, teachers and so many guidebooks, I made almost every misstep in the book. I had bought into every one of the myths about applying to college...
That's changing. The children are grown now, and a number are speaking up, telling stories of pain that didn't go away the moment they turned 18 or even 40. A cluster of new books is fueling a backlash, not against divorce itself but against the notion that kids somehow coast through it. Stephanie Staal's The Love They Lost (Delacorte Press), written by a child of divorce, is part memoir and part generational survey, a melancholy volume about the search for love by kids who remember the loss of love too vividly. The Case for Marriage by Linda...