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...incoming crop of DPJ members are first-time parliamentarians. But public impatience with politics as usual has boiled over; the DPJ's novices would be well advised to follow Hatoyama's lead and start hustling. Below, we've pinpointed five areas on which the new ruling party should focus to get the nation on track. The clock is running...
...articulates the subtle dangers of the digital age in business settings, which are evolving. "Nobody--and I repeat, nobody--is so important they need to check their PDA during a meeting or lunch," she writes. "The people with whom you're talking need to have 100 percent of your focus." The author is not a fan of texting ("Unless the situation is extremely urgent, text-messaging is not an appropriate way to communicate in a professional setting"); smiley-face emoticons; overly familiar salutations or sign-offs (forget "ciao" and "cheers"); or ungrammatical, unproofread messages. Jones warns that getting too frisky...
...We’ve played 4 games and only have got 3 goals, and that’s not going to get it done,” Leone said after the game. “We’ve really got to get that kind of focus now, because now we are defending very hard, we just need to add that attacking part of the game.”Defense was key in the game, especially with Long Beach’s unique way of surrounding the goal on all five corner kick oppotunities that they took in the first...
...Rock Center was established to support research and entrepreneurship among the student body. In recent years, entrepreneurship has been a growing focus at HBS, and all students are required to take a class on the subject. According to Roberts, by their 25-year reunion, more than half of HBS graduates have started their own businesses...
...Tehran's response came this week, in the form of a package of proposed subjects for talks that included nonproliferation of nuclear weapons but omitted any mention of Iran's uranium-enrichment efforts, which have been the focus of Western anxiety. It's hardly the response Obama hoped for, but the U.S. and its five partners in the P5+1 negotiating group (France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China) went ahead and asked for a meeting with Tehran anyway - if for no other reason than to "test the proposition" that Iran is ready for dialogue, as State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley...