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While I may not be lumbering through conversations in Spanish (or, likelier, Spanglish) with my American peers, there are the smaller day-to-day interactions: ordering coffee at the university, asking where the bathroom is, getting directions. I like to think that each of these has a small cumulative effect...
...broke. Under the direction of top political strategist Steve Schmidt, the campaign's new goal is to tag Obama as nothing more than an untested politician with considerable rhetorical talents while touting McCain as the proven independent reformer voters already know. Schmidt, who took over the day-to-day operation of the campaign on July 2, is a bulldog of a man, broad and bald, with a take-no-prisoners style. A veteran of the 2004 Bush campaign and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election effort, Schmidt ordered the McCain campaign war room to stop sending...
...Next Step In june, I moved out of my day-to-day role at Microsoft to spend more time on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I'll be talking with political leaders about how their governments can increase aid for the poor, make it more effective and bring in new partners through creative capitalism. I'll also talk with CEOs about what their companies can do. One idea is to dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that affect the people who have been left behind. This kind of contribution takes...
...Germany's two-tiered management system, shareholders elect the supervisory board. It has the job of appointing and supervising the executive board, which runs the company's day-to-day business. Typically, though, a retiring CEO is appointed to chair the supervisory board, which often is a paper tiger with little incentive to scrutinize executives...
...Well, you know, in Afghanistan, I think I was talking to the troops who were on the front lines day-to-day, and the absolute consensus [was] that without a solution to the border problems, we're not going to solve the problems there. That I think I knew intellectually, but I think it was when you heard troops specifically talk about seeing people who are firing at them running across the border; they're in their sights across the border, not being able to go into the border - knowing they may engage in a raid again...