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...Cold River in southwest New Hampshire lies a wooded town of slow streams and defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless...
...Having first trained as an actor at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, Freeman should know. He dropped out to direct, but the experience taught him the importance of long rehearsal periods, something he has campaigned for ever since. At the now-defunct Opera Factory, he was famous for training his singers in yoga, primal screaming and Butoh dance, and his productions successfully broke down the image of a singer plonked on stage. (Musically adventurous as well, Freeman will premiere a hip-hop opera based on the life of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the ENO in September...
...repair-shop chain while going on an acquisition spree of luxury brands. After Bill Ford fired Nasser and stepped into the CEO job, his gentler approach was a relief, yet some industry executives are skeptical. "So far, the company's driving him," says Gerald Meyers, former CEO of the defunct American Motor Co. and an expert in crisis management. "He needs to say, 'This is not about the past, this is about the future--we need some shock and awe.' Is Bill Ford prepared to do that? I don't see it so far." Counters Mark Fields, president of Ford...
...hardly surprising then that no one seemed especially perturbed when the now-defunct 9-11 Commission issued a ?report card? on our Homeland Security that would have gotten your average fourth grader busted back to the third grade. All those ?D?s and ?F?s and hardly a flutter of interest from the public at large. Heavy sigh...
...same time students had finished their classes and were getting ready to take their finals, so it seemed like the right time.” The change announced yesterday will return the school to the policy that had stood until 1998, when it enacted the soon-to-be-defunct policy that forbids students from showing their grades to recruiters. Former HBS dean Kim B. Clark ’74 issued a statement on Dec. 9 saying that, even before leaving his post last summer, he had concluded that HBS should revert to optional disclosure. “Along with many...