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...appointed hour and got into a car that sped west out of the capital. Halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi, he was blindfolded, and the car turned off the highway. After 10 minutes it stopped. His guide explained that they were placing wooden planks over a canal. They drove over the water and into a grove of baby pomegranate trees...
...weeks ago, after picking up her daughter Renee from school, Donna Olsen committed an act of soccer-mom heresy. Instead of heading to soccer practice, Olsen drove Renee, 10, to the Bookends bookstore in Ridgewood, N.J., where they whiled away 2 1/2 hours listening to Lemony Snicket--Renee's favorite author--read from his new book and lingered for an autograph and a chat with the writer afterward. Then, instead of snatching a fast-food dinner from a drive-through window so they could rush off to their next activity, they drove home and, joined by Renee's older brother...
...varsity sports squads. "You just have to set up a schedule and stick to it." His classmate Marielle Woods says she would love a night off, but that doesn't fit in with her plans to get into a top college. Last year on Ready, Set, Relax! night, she drove to New York City to audition for a gig as the voice-over narrator on a radio commercial. That's just one of about a dozen extracurricular activities she juggles while maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average. After a day of advanced-placement and honors classes, she spends two hours...
...CORPORATE AMERICA CLEANER NOW THAN IT WAS A YEAR OR TWO AGO WHEN ENRON AND ALL THE OTHER BIG SCANDALS BROKE? I think that there has been an emotional shift both on Wall Street and in boardrooms. What's changed is the level of arrogance that drove corporate governance to the precipice. I think it's safe to get back into the market now as long as you have an adequate degree of caution. And as an investor, you should never forget that it's your money at stake, not theirs. Oh, and if you see a shark...
This happened right before lunch. Rather than go to lunch, Chauvière got in his car and drove home. He took off his suit and put it in a grocery bag, took off his shoes and placed them in another bag, took a shower, brought the suit to the dry cleaners’ and just told them to “make it clean.”There were lighter moments as well. Chauvière remembers some of the memorial services as being particularly colorful, like when a 6-year-old composed a memorial rap for his grandmother...