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Boston Red Sox shortstop will conduct a seminar on how to speak with reporters by forming English sentences while simultaneously saying nothing. Garciaparra has mastered the art of “boredom” in media interviews and will explore the development of such phrases as “I just go out there and compete” and “we’re gonna give it 110 percent.” Students will be required to watch Bull Durham and must conduct three tape-recorded interviews with Harvard Crimson reporters to illustrate their progressing skills...
...father had built a little cupboard for our records, and every night after dinner I would pick another symphony or tone poem to listen to. I would sit on the sofa in the living room and sometimes get up and conduct in my own way. I never had a baton. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was conducting. I had wanted to be a conductor since I started helping my father with his orchestra. When he was preparing at home for rehearsals, I would conduct and he would play the violin part...
...exactly was Husham Husain, a mid-level Iraqi diplomat in Manila, expelled from the Philippines last week? There is little doubt that Husain had been pushing the boundaries of proper diplomatic conduct by attending and even helping to organize rallies against the U.S., and meeting with a wide variety of individuals openly hostile to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's administration. But was he really involved in the wave of terrorist bombings on the southern island of Mindanao that the government blames on Abu Sayyaf, the Islamic guerrilla group that, in its early days, had links to al-Qaeda...
...Chicago Graduate School of Business, sports agent Bill Duffy and a marketing director, Bill Sanders. In September Team Yao, as the group is known, commissioned a Chicago business-school class to prepare a marketing study on Yao. Students traveled to five Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, to conduct extensive polling and focus groups. In December the class presented Team Yao with a 500-page report about the core values of the 400 million urban Chinese consumers on whom they think Yao's marketers should focus. These Chinese, when asked which values were most important to them, "used words like...
...Corporate Governance Center at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, estimates that 15% of sitting directors of U.S. public companies will give up their seats over the next 18 months--triple the usual rate of turnover. Recruiting firms say the number of director searches they have been asked to conduct has already shot up--20% to 50% over the number a year ago--and that several hundred director seats will be added in the next two years by S&P 500 companies alone. Despite all the talk of no one wanting to be a director these days, "none of those seats...