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...film The Passion of the Christ was viewed by 44.3% of those polled, but the book The Da Vinci Code, was read by only 28.5%. This may not reflect religious piety (The Passion is very pious, The Code quite skeptical) so much as it does the labor of reading. The Left Behind books, very pious and very popular also, only reached...
...sold. Most shaped up. Tata Steel, for example, shed half of its 78,000 workers between 1994 and 2005, using retirement and voluntary redundancies to lower costs and boost productivity. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata code of honor, which sets group-wide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Ratan Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures in India that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct...
...thought your Captain Bezu Fache was one of the few bright spots in The Da Vinci Code. Were you as bored as I was watching...
...news network decided not to identify him after Pynchon, who reportedly lives in New York, called to complain. "Let me be unambiguous," he told the news channel. "I prefer not to be photographed." (He also railed against being labeled a recluse, claiming the term was a journalistic "code word" that means "doesn't talk to reporters...
...lighthearted environment that relieves some of the stress of the team’s grueling training program.“I make sure it’s a good atmosphere for fast rowing,” Benkreira says.To do so, he has the job of upholding the time-honored code of rules and traditions that has evolved alongside Harvard crew. These long-established and ever-developing laws were set down to placate the vengeful and insatiable river gods who reign over the Charles River. There are several ways—ranging from rowing shirtless to stealing the LP?...