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...that favorite American management tool: the hatchet. He axed 26,000 jobs and browbeat suppliers to lower costs, but he also introduced what he called "disciplined pizazz"--a program to bring a focus on efficiency to the company's business operations without sacrificing its character. The imperious Schrempp, by contrast, continued to lurch from crisis to crisis until the Daimler board showed him the exit, three years before his contract expired. DaimlerChrysler stock soared about 10% on the news. The change of leadership "dramatically alters investor perceptions," said Merrill's London-based auto analyst Stephen Reitman, who upgraded the stock...
...already down and go on the record opposing a devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much of anything that counts; swallow hard and fall in line, and what good is their access anyway? By contrast, the Democrats--looking smug and convinced they have dodged a bullet with Miers' selection--actually had it easy. Senate minority leader Harry Reid boasted that he had recommended Miers in his chats with Bush, while most Dems just stayed quiet, letting the Republicans eat their young...
...unconscionable that Harvard abides the existence of this small handful of groups and their monopoly over some of the choicest opportunities available to undergraduates. Trips to Bermuda, World Tours, intercessions spent skiing in Vail, performances in major motion pictures—these marks of unspeakable privilege stand in stark contrast to the opportunities afforded to most other student organizations. As other groups scrounge for space, all-male a cappella groups devour rooms for their rehearsals. One even has a posh clubhouse to use as its home base. While most Harvard students socialize in overcrowded dorm rooms drinking cheap liquor...
Each is delicately shaped and crafted by human hands, the thumbprints of the animators often still fresh on the figures. They sit in direct contrast to the overslick sheen of the too-cool-for-grade-schoolers output of the Pixar and Blue Sky studios currently robbing piggy banks across the country...
...contrast to last year’s preoccupation with ’50s Technicolor pertness, this year’s fall fashion shows have been dominated by a particularly goth aesthetic. Not a combat-boot, free-verse poetry type of goth, but the distinctly Victorian elegance of a preserved moth or an Ann Radcliffe novel...