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...printed during the most recent of Tony Blair's many crises. The others ran even before the British Prime Minister led his party to a second landslide victory in the 2001 election. Blair can always take comfort that whatever consumes the political class in Westminster - like the current flap over his arrogant announcement, in a press release and without prior consultation, that he planned to eliminate the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, create a Supreme Court and appoint his old flatmate to be Minister of Constitutional Affairs - he remains the most consistently popular Prime Minister since...
...Bragg case caused a minor public flap compared with Blair's, but it was ultimately more damaging to Raines. Journalists started giving anti-Raines quotes to competitors; they ranted against Bragg and Times management on a popular website for journalists. It didn't help that when Sulzberger went to the Times Washington bureau for a brown-bag lunch, an employee said, "he got a harsher message than he expected...
First they flap northward in the spring to their Arctic nesting grounds--the geese, the pelicans, the storks, dozens of species. Then in the fall they wing back home to perhaps Africa or South America, prey to man's and nature's casual malevolence--the hunters, the oil slicks, the raptors--not to mention their own exhaustion...
...front flap of Joseph L. Badaracco’s best-selling book Leading Quietly, the Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School (HBS) lauds people who “choose responsible, behind-the-scenes action over public heroism to resolve tough leadership challenges...
Meanwhile, the brass at AMR quietly landed pension guarantees worth $41 million--benefits that, unlike those of the workers, will be protected even if AMR goes bankrupt. Succumbing to public pressure, AMR backed off on another issue: its proposed "retention" bonuses for top executives. A flap over that cost CEO Donald Carty his job. But the executive pensions remain in place. Investing legend Warren Buffett, who has been campaigning against executive compensation that is out of line with returns to workers and shareholders, said in a recent speech that "what really gets to the public is when CEOs get rich...