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...Sony had beaten financial expectations (though it wasn't always profitable). The firm was leaner, following more than 10,000 job cuts and the closure of nine factories. The consumer-electronics division was back in the black. And the movie studio was riding high, led by The Da Vinci Code. Meanwhile, investors had sent the stock up more than 8% through July. It was a nice vote of confidence for Stringer, Sony's first non-Japanese boss, who has probably acquired permanent jet lag traveling between Tokyo, New York City and his family home in London...
...Number of calls Carmen Allen of Grandview, Mo., says she received in one hour last Tuesday night from viewers trying to vote for Lopez; her mobile-phone number is the same, with a different area code. Former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith beat Lopez for the title...
Tucked away in the Murr Center, at the end the squash courts, there is a little piece of Pebble Beach, Sea Island, and St. Andrews, where any student can hit the links. Greens fees are $25, and there’s no dress code...
...market--and to meet quantified goals for leadership and innovation or be sold. Tata Steel, for example, shed half its 78,000 workers between 1994 and 2005. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata code of honor, which sets groupwide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct...
...Wolf also turned many Western German spies into double agents. One, code-named "Topaz," worked for more than two decades in NATO's headquarters. Wolf personally ran the highest-ranking woman in the West German intelligence service, the deputy head of its Soviet bloc division, whose reports were so good they regularly reached the desks of the head of the KGB in Moscow. Even the head of West German counterintelligence defected to Wolf. "As even my bitter foes would acknowledge," he wrote in his interesting but fundamentally unrevealing 1997 memoir The Man Without A Face, his spy agency "was probably...