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...executive vice president of marketing and sales. The company is focusing on hiring sales-minded managers and building relationships with insurance companies like Allstate and State Farm. This time Hertz is expanding region by region, getting to know each area as it goes. Keenan experienced Hertz's aggressive push firsthand. Replacement cars are an important part of his business, so the decision to partner with Hertz was a big one. "I kept asking, 'How long is your commitment?'" Keenan recalls. "They assured me that they're committed to this marketplace for the long term...
Although it's the company's only profit source, Clooney says the Ocean's franchise is finished, partly because corralling all the actors and stringing together the intricate plotline are too hard on Soderbergh and partly because capers, Clooney learned firsthand, are trickier than they look. During shooting, his Lake Como house was broken into four times by the same guys, who were after a safe. "The second time they came, they put Jergens lotion all over the hardwood floor to slide it out. At least I hope that's all they were using the lotion for," he says...
Some experts are skeptical about would-be college students surfing through the application process. Michael Truschke, Pepperdine University's admissions director, says that although the service may be somewhat useful, it should not be a substitute for firsthand research--visiting campuses and meeting students and faculty. But Gina Antonini, a high school senior from Arlington, Va., liked the recommendations of Destination-U.com so much that she ditched her guidebooks and applied to the six schools the website suggested. "None of the other sources helped me figure out what kind of schools would fit me as a person," she says. "I found...
...they don't. Too much recycled reportage, and the account turns leaden, leaving readers craving the terse economy of the writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
Lauren K. Truesdell ’06, secretary of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), said she has seen the problem of political comments interjected into a class firsthand...