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Lucinda falls in love with her new home at first sight, and if The Quality of Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more...
...will fill the void? There is "a huge reluctance from the traditional pool of candidates," especially current CEOs of public companies, says Julie Daum, head of the U.S. board practice at executive-search firm Spencer Stuart. While board members will not be held personally liable for corporate misdeeds, litigation targeting directors (and the embarrassing publicity it brings) is a growing possibility as shareholders and their lawyers test the breadth of the new rules. Many companies are being forced to widen their searches for directors. This means reaching out to people who have never before served on a board, executives below...
...mail has been another key to South Korea's mobile-telecom success. About 80% of Korea's 47 million people will soon be connected to the Internet at home, with more than half using high-speed connections. A new service offered by Daum, a South Korean Web portal with 32 million users, allows users to forward the free e-mail they receive on their PCs to their mobile phones for the nominal fee of $1 a month and has become an instant...
...standby policy, however, Daum said the activities office would be able to “almost accommodate everyone,” even for those trips that have already been sold...
...Daum stressed the importance of the activities...