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Such is the fluidity of Solomons politics (Downer mocks it as a "rather curious world") that well-informed observers expect a change of government in Honiara soon. Sogavare has come to power twice in the wake of violence: following a coup in 2000, and after last April's riots. While some of his government's moves seem erratic, the guiding purpose is clear. Under the slogan of "sovereignty," Sogavare is trying to gain control of donor funds and dominate the bureaucracy again. In New York last week to attend the gathering of the U.N. General Assembly, Honiara's delegation sought...
...says Meyer. "But you can teach managers how to hire for a specific emotional skill set." When selecting new hires, Meyer looks for candidates whose strengths are divided 51%-49% between emotional hospitality and technical excellence. "I like to call them hospitalitarians. People who are naturally kind, empathetic and curious, along with having a strong work ethic. They get fed through the process of providing hospitality...
...empty lot in Los Angles. It was severed in two and forensic evidence indicated that she had been tortured and sodomized before death, with her organs removed and the blood drained from her body after death. Crime scene photos have not, to this day, been publicly released. Equally curious, the police have never uncovered much evidence about her pre-death friends, movements or possible lovers. The case was a journalistic sensation and it has retained its powerful hold on the public as well as on novelists and filmmakers. In 1977 John Gregory Dunne wrote a novel, True Confessions that...
...BECOME ALMOST ROUTINE in the booming luxury business for curious minds to draw back the industry's proverbial Oz-like curtains to learn the tricks of the trade?how a $10,000 French handbag is stitched or where Brazilian gemstones are mined. But at Swarovski crystals in Wattens, Austria, a town of 8,000 about 20 minutes northeast of Innsbruck by car, the factory?and all the technical knowhow stashed inside?is strictly off limits...
...paper’s co-authors agreed. “I entered the group a curious student and I left a capable scientist,” said Brian C. Odom of the University of Chicago. “Sometimes advisers give their students projects which are a waste of time, or they don’t give them enough guidance, but Jerry gives the right projects and the right level of guidance to turn the students into scientists...