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...pitched Enron's deals, and the people who worked with him, were never as impressed with him as they were with his boss and mentor, Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
Whether they do depends less on readers than on advertisers, who for decades have made a cult of youth. "The thinking is that people over 50 are loyal to certain brands, so it's a waste of money trying to advertise to them," says Paul Hale, whose investment-banking firm Veronis Suhler advises media companies. Two earlier efforts to win More's audience, Lear's and Mirabella, collapsed, partly because of lack of advertiser enthusiasm...
...became the first elected President of Singapore in 1993; in Singapore. Citing differences of opinion with the government over the role of the President, Cheong decided not to run for a second term three years ago. DIED. GEORGE NADER, 80, 1954 Golden Globe winner and star of 1953 cult-classic Robot Monster; in Los Angeles. Nader's soon-to-be-published book, The Perils of Paul, gives an inside look into Hollywood's gay community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John...
Summers has the right idea because getting rid of grade inflation is the only way to kill the cult of the “sigma” and refocus students from being perfect to actually learning. When the only acceptable grades in popular science courses are A and A-minus, top students are forced to compete brutally for those scores. If the B were restored to its position as an honorable grade, it would take much of the pressure off of those students to “be perfect,” as they have been for their entire careers...
...pitched Enron's deals, and the people who worked with him, were never as impressed with him as they were with his boss and mentor, Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...