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Carroll and Mui believe CEOs should create a corporate atmosphere that encourages challenge and discourages yes-men. It may even pay to designate a person to play devil's advocate--an official skeptic. The authors believe strongly that inside doubts deserve to be aired before outside financial disaster strikes. They should be getting busy now with a revision to include the epic failures currently taking place in the financial system...
...year he led the Cincinnati Reds to the title. In all that time, he hasn't gotten back to the Series. Here's a guy who has won everywhere he's been (can we just exclude that stint in Tampa, where God would have lost with those Devil Rays?), reversing the fortunes of the Reds, the Seattle Mariners and now the Cubs. He's long been one of the best in the game, and it's about time he ended that drought. "I would think he'd be due," says Pat Gillick, GM of the NL East champion Philadelphia Phillies...
Vogue editor Anna Wintour, whom I vaguely knew as the lady who wears Prada and is remarkably similar to the Devil, has two bodyguards--that's how serious fashion is. I've interviewed a lot of celebrities, and you know who had bodyguards? Nobody. I walked up to one of the bodyguards and asked him if he could handle a client who needs bodyguarding a little more than Anna Wintour does. "I think so," he said. "I have." I did not know until right then that bodyguards are allowed to act embarrassed...
...Relying on sources like pro-am tournaments as a source of funds so heavily that they determine tour policy may seem like selling out, but the devil has been at the door for women’s sports for a long time. Female professional athletes traditionally have fewer fans and far less media coverage than their male counterparts; according to the Women’s Sports Foundation, women-only sports articles account for only 3.5 percent of all sports stories, and 94 percent of local television news sports coverage goes to men. The last thing the LPGA wants...
...Rumble Fish (Mickey was Motorcycle Boy), The Pope of Greenwich Village, Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon, the S-M erotic drama Nine 1/2 Weeks (with Kim Basinger, who also made a comeback at Venice in The Burning Plain), the satanic thriller Angel Heart (De Niro was the Devil), as a gangster in Elephant Man makeup in Johnny Handsome and a lowlife genius in a film of Charles Bukowski's Barfly directed by Barbet Schroeder (who also had a film at Venice; the Lido was one big Rourke reunion). The guy was sexy, dangerous, adventurous in his choice...