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...public relations comeback, right? Maybe to mollified customers, but to professional masters of disaster, who specialize in bailing out companies in crisis, JetBlue is emblematic of a new model of calamity, one that is instantly visible, viral and capable of inflicting business-busting damage. And one that demands a fresh kind of crisis-management approach. Will Yum! Brands, owner of KFC and Taco Bell, never cease to see clips of a rat-infested New York City store on YouTube? "Saying you're sorry might be O.K. for a love-story script, but it's not enough to assure consumers that...
...Harvard men’s lacrosse defeated Brown, 9-6, last night under the lights of Harvard Stadium, the Crimson (3-5, 2-1 Ivy) was not entirely in control. The game came down to the wire, with the Bears (6-3, 1-2) falling just short of a comeback, as only after co-captain Brian Mahler scored with 2:39 was a Harvard victory assured...
...quick pass from Martin to make the score 12-3. “We adjusted at the half, and began to execute our game,” Nelson said. “But it was not soon enough.” Penn quickly squashed any ideas of a comeback when Kaitlin Farmer scooped up a groundball near the Crimson crease and went coast-to-coast, running the length of the field virtually untouched to net her only score of the game. The goal seemed to take the wind out of Harvard’s sails, and the Quakers...
...hear from Paul Verhoeven, who was drummed out of Hollywood for committing the town's only unforgivable sin: making controversial, high profile movies whose box office performances were not worth their trouble. In such circumstances it's simple to read Black Book as a possibly desperate attempt at a comeback, a retreat to his native land and to the sort of material with which he first established his international reputation, Soldier of Orange, his 1977 resistance drama of a much more conventional kind. But in his 69th year, Verhoeven is perhaps something of a split personality: a man who cannot...
...With the orange forces badly fractured, Yanukovych has forged a remarkable comeback. The metal, coal and chemical magnate hired Paul Manafort, a veteran Washington political consultant who has advised numerous prominent U.S. Republicans, to help shape his image. Yanukovych has emphasized orange revolution failings like administration infighting, sporadic food and fuel shortages, and soaring inflation. The strategy worked: in the 2006 Rada elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions came in first, carrying 32% of the vote...