Word: flipped
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...aside the skeptics. "With Jay done, we have to take some chances, try new things," he says. His entourage surrounds him. The head of his film business peruses a script (she recommends that Dash take a pass). A marketing guy is reading Mao in the Boardroom, while two others flip through a branding book. Dash punches at his BlackBerry. "This is the smallest jet we'll ever be on," he says. True--if Roc-A-Fella sails through the rough weather that inevitably lies ahead for any young and growing business...
...democratic" ones, is that the former works. A manageable number of students actually show up in a classroom designed to accommodate them, bringing with them the books from which they can actually learn. If it ain't broken, don't fix it, goes the old American cliché, the flip side of which may well be more pertinent to the French: if it is broken, why not go ahead and try? The French system of higher education is broken to the core. At the level of higher education at least, it seems to me high time for the old French...
...flip side of Harvard’s home-heavy start is that eight of its next nine games are on the road, beginning Friday at Colgate...
...allegations about forced labor raise difficult questions for the firm. "Can a company invest in a country that is considered not democratic?" Dairon asks. "Should it substitute for international organizations in judging a country in the first place?" He opens up the floor for comments. "We need to flip the image in the media and publicize the more positive aspects of what we're doing there," says one Italian manager. Dairon concurs. "I agree one hundred percent," he says. "But we are a company of engineers. We are very rational. Perhaps we work too rationally." Changing culture, it seems...
...relate to that time when we knew exactly where our boundaries were because all we had to do was reach out and touch them. College has become synonymous with freedom for many an American teenager, but often this freedom means that our options become almost terrifyingly broad. We flip bewilderedly through 800 pages of course offerings, we speak wistfully of “getting some direction” in our lives, we get new pamphlets in our mailboxes every day about “exciting new opportunities” among which we must pick and choose. Our views now extend...