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...because people would laugh at me unexpectedly. I figured if nobody takes me seriously in life I might as well just switch professions.RR: What did you do before? TS: I was helping my dad run an ice cream store in Randolph Massachusetts. It’s on the blue collar side of Braintree. RR: I don’t think Harvard students go there much. TS: It’s actually where Dunkin Donuts University is located. I know that’s a big competitor of Harvard. RR: What’s your impression of Harvard students? TS: They...
...that has afflicted the companies' management structure as much as the guts of the planes themselves. Airbus, a four-nation consortium backed by millions of euros of taxpayers' money, was once hailed as a model of European industrial cooperation. In fact, its structure, which distributes management and blue-collar jobs among its various state and private owners, has turned Airbus into a nightmare of corporate governance. It has become an enterprise in which political considerations carry more weight than commercial ones, where horse-trading trumps industrial efficiency, and where the national interests of its partners are balanced so carefully that...
...turn, blamed EADS management in Munich. With so many clamoring stakeholders, any would-be Airbus reformer has his work cut out. EADS co-ceo Thomas Enders met with Germany's Economics Minister, Michael Glos, last Thursday, and promised him that Airbus wasn't looking for mass layoffs of blue-collar workers, but for administrative streamlining. His reassurances didn't stop calls in Germany for the government to take a big stake in EADS to counterbalance the 15% owned by the French state. (The two other big owners are Germany's DaimlerChrysler and France's Lagardère group, both...
...gratuities as pocket money, and had continued to blow most of them," he writes. "'Live for the moment' had been my motto, and the moments had been many and memorable." Thus, at the end of it all, Moss is broke and living, astonishingly, among the masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost $30,000). Far from being bitter about his circumstances, Moss merely...
...gnarly crime plot, this one dares to strain credulity. Once or twice, a skeptical viewer may ask, What are the odds? The odds that Billy would commit all manner of crimes, to prove his underworld bona fides, and never get so much as an interested glance, let alone a collar, from the cops who don't know he's one of them. The odds that Colin would rise so quickly in the force, and be deemed so trustworthy that he'd be assigned to sleuth out the rat on the team - himself. The Departed adds one coincidence even the Hong...