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...1990s, Toyota set out to become the world's top auto company. Being the best and being the biggest created a tension that Toyota couldn't resolve. Says MIT operations expert Steven Spear: "If quality is first, it drives a certain set of behaviors. If market share is the goal, it drives a different set of behaviors...
BILL WATTERSON, reclusive creator of the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, explaining in his first interview since 1989 why he stopped drawing the strip at the height of its popularity...
When I heard that Heidi Montag sold only 658 copies of her new album, Superficial, in the first week, I thought, Who are those 658 people? CIA agents who blast songs to get dictators to surrender? Heidi Montag 658 times? As a journalist, I had the responsibility to find out. Or to go to Haiti. I can never keep those straight...
...First I called 16-year-old Joseph Mendoza in Reno, Nev. Mendoza, who has a graphic-design company and was paid $28 to design the fan site Heidi-Pratt.com says he is not disappointed by Montag's album, though he adds, "I generally like all albums." He loves the way Montag portrays a villain on The Hills and in interviews and probably when she's all alone. But he really admires her husband Spencer Pratt, whom he sees as a Svengali. "You know how Paris Hilton seemed before she appeared on her new show and showed people she's smart...
...been a decade since I attended a CPAC, but back in the 1980s I used to plan my year around them. They gathered more ambitious Republican politicians in one place than any other event except a party convention. It was at a CPAC that I first heard Newt Gingrich speak and saw Reagan in the flesh. (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...