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Justin Sewell didn't set out to become the voice of workplace cynicism--or of Despair Inc., a $1 million-a-year purveyor of satiric business maxims. Nor did he foresee that corporate leaders from Ken Lay to Sandy Weill would send him so many customers. It just worked out that...
...Despair did not start auspiciously. With a little more than $100,000 in start-up capital (family and friends had also kicked in funds), the three laid out $50,000, trying to look like a big company at the National Stationery Show. The strategy netted them just $3,000 in orders. Filling those orders almost broke them. As a hedge against dealing with retailers who "could tell we were rubes and pretenders," Justin says, Despair went online, structuring Despair.com as a ruthless parody of "everything that's wrong in corporate America" and setting up a stylized version of Kersten...
...dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth, serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair." The colonies may be gone, but Churchill showed how the supple power of the English language - whose reach still grows - can forge an empire on which the sun need never...
...your CRP levels are high, don't despair. They can be lowered. In fact, the lifestyle changes and medications that doctors recommend to lower cholesterol do double duty and also reduce CRP. Avoiding fatty red meat, eating more fruits and vegetables and exercising should be the first response--if making those changes is not enough, statin drugs may help...
...charms of a Renaissance courtyard, a dovecote of partridges, a meadow with trees and a pergola near the meadow set the scene for a recent rehearsal of Harvard’s latest opera: The Triumph of Camilla. In the waxing moonlight, two forlorn lovers articulate the pathos of despair in C sharps and high G’s. As a disheartened mezzo soprano appeals to the moon, arms extended, her gestures border parody. Pfhorzheimer House’s Comstock room never saw so much action...