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...service says it offered Fitzgerald two new jobs, including one advising "on the latest cost and schedule performance-management techniques." He rejected both, saying, "It strips me of authority and the ability to initiate work." Some Air Force officials think Fitzgerald has a "persecution complex"; one tells TIME that history isn't to blame for his latest woes: "There are very few people in the Air Force today who know about his work...
Mercedes designates its 2006 R-Class models as "sports tourers." Which is to say the R-Class isn't so much an SUV or a minivan--there's already a new M-Class for 2006--so much as a station wagon with a very serious superiority complex. The six leather seats practically wait at attention. The overly busy command-center dashboard console wants to trade business cards with a Gulfstream...
Fifty years ago, Plante's sideline--he has done roughly 175 seminary evaluations since 1988, at about $450 apiece--did not exist. While seminaries have always screened candidates through interviews, personal references and, often, written spiritual autobiographies, the process has become increasingly complex and now takes one to three years. Testing by professional psychologists, introduced in the '50s, has proliferated in the past two decades as the American church has redefined spirituality from a narrow focus on piety and discipline to one "involving things like the psychological and social maturity on which spirituality builds," explains Charles Bouchard, president...
...factor several chairs cited was the high cost of campus construction projects, including the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) and the North Yard science complex on Oxford Street...
...Monk’s greatest characteristics as a jazz pianist was his ability to create something dissonant and complex, yet somehow still infinitely listenable. It is a capability that sets him apart as a unique performer with more than a few great performances. So, when an engineer at the Library of Congress recently discovered a supposedly lost 1957 recording of the Thelonious Monk Quartet performing with tenor sax legend John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, jazz fans were foaming at the mouth...