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...Americans have a favorable opinion of Saudi Arabia, down from 60% during the Gulf War. The point man for the campaign, Adel al-Jubeir, a top aide to Crown Prince Abdullah, says that after Sept. 11, "we discovered Americans don't know us. So we decided to explain ourselves to them...
Longman's answer is reminiscent of the pre-9/11 business-strategy tomes that explain success in terms of combat and athletic metaphors. "These were people at the top of their game," he writes, "who kept score in their lives and who became successful precisely because they were assertive." They were company presidents, managers, writers. They played sports--baseball, football, rugby, judo--and drew life lessons from them. They believed in the moral value of work. They expected the best of themselves and others (one passenger once went out to lunch and sent his cheeseburger back eight times...
...Army Secretary Thomas White's appearance before a Senate committee last week. White, a former top executive at Enron, denied that he had a hand in manipulating energy prices in California while vice chairman of Enron Energy Services. Under verbal torture by Senate Democrats, he also had to explain his 77 phone calls from Washington to top Enron associates as that company was disintegrating--and as he was netting $12 million in Enron stock sales and as the war in Afghanistan was at full throttle...
Jackson had declined director Barry Sonnenfeld's request to cameo in the first MIB. This time Jackson called Sonnenfeld. "He said he had found the first film very moving, and he stayed in the theater by himself and cried," says Sonnenfeld. "I tried to explain that I personally thought Men in Black was a comedy... but we just went past that...
...Americans have a favorable opinion of Saudi Arabia, down from 60% during the Gulf War. The point man for the campaign, Adel al-Jubeir, a top aide to Crown Prince Abdullah, says that after Sept. 11, "we discovered Americans don't know us. So we decided to explain ourselves to them...