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...Telekom's 20-member supervisory board, which appoints and oversees the executive management, was scheduled to meet on Dec. 5 to discuss the state of the company's business and whether to extend Ricke?s five-year contract, due to expire in November 2007. But after the company' s third-quarter financial report released this week showed that the slide in the company's domestic business is continuing unabated, investors became convinced that the only recourse is to change faces at the top as soon as possible. According to people familiar with the situation, the supervisory board could now meet...
...groups encompassing those individuals. This research may shed light on the origins of social prejudices. “Children prefer the lucky to the unlucky,” said Kristina R. Olson, a Harvard graduate student in psychology and a co-author of the study. “They extend that preference beyond the individual to entire social groups.” The tendency towards extension is particularly significant, according to Olson, because it may be key to understanding certain stubborn social inequities and their possible roots in the perceptions of the young. “We?...
...rooms, studies, and formal dining rooms. They also do not need 50-foot high Palladian windows, unless they are conducting church services in their great room on Sundays instead of watching football on a 70-inch plasma TV. And are cathedral ceilings really necessary—especially when they extend to a foyer big enough to hold the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree? Unless these people are having foreign leaders and royalty over to barbecue on their deck, they could probably cut the disgusting opulence down...
...implications of the Penn president’s faux pas may extend to Harvard—where Gutmann was an undergrad in South House, now Cabot, and where she earned her doctorate in 1976. Gutmann, who was a finalist for the presidency when Lawrence H. Summers was selected, is now seen as a potential successor to Derek C. Bok when he steps down from his position as interim president in July...
...desirable that people on both sides of the political divide be able to call each other friends and to be able to disagree amicably without waging World War III. We expect that of our kids. We ought to expect it of our lawmakers. The President has always tried to extend a hand to people on both sides of the aisle and he'll continue...