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Underneath the arrogance and naivete in the e-conomy, there's long been a bias against seasoned managers from traditional industries, a belief that experienced folks would clash with the culture and drag the operation down. "Dotcom people describe old-media people as if they were from another century," observes Paul Bernard, head of a New York City-based training and coaching firm, Paul Bernard & Associates...
...having some fun with virtually every aspect of Darling--his name, his attire, his propriety, his frightening similarities to Charles Benjamin "Ben" Watson Jr. '03, a recent National JCL president. An ever-growing corpus of "Sterling lore" circulates throughout the JCL and SCL. "Sterling is deathly afraid of drag queens," writes Brian W. Compton, a fellow SCLer. He knows this because at the 1997 National JCL convention in Fargo, North Dakota, he was one of a group of male SCLers who donned Spice Girls garb and serenaded Darling in front of a huge audience. "Should I be afraid?" Darling asked...
...compelled to take action that will change Microsoft's business - many think Jackson will seek to break the firm into a bunch of "Baby Bills" when he produces his "remedy" in August - Bill Gates and his Redmond buddies are widely expected to appeal the decision, a process that could drag on for years. In the meantime, the whole nature of the computer-sofware-Internet business will have changed...
...other words, the skeptical generals at the Pentagon may be justifiably concerned about being dragged into a vortex. Because the economics of the industry dictate that the war on drugs will drag on as long as there's poverty in Latin America and millions of North Americans are willing to spend billions of dollars a year on drugs...
...Congress would be much less enthusiastic about supporting them. But the government wants to be as cautious as possible about how they proceed to send Elian home, and that creates many openings for the Miami relatives to delay the process. There'll be no surprise if they manage to drag this thing out a lot longer - and remember, you can't ignore the fact that Al Gore really needs Florida if he's going to beat George W. Bush." Even once the courts have ruled, implementing their decisions may require uncomfortable decisions from the politicians...