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...biggest star was Elvis, who had "died" two year before WWN was born. The weekly ran frequent stories about the singer ("Painting of Elvis Weeps Real Tears"), but its greatest news coup, and its top-selling issue, was the one that announced Presley was alive in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hideout. WWN's explanation of his 1977 disappearance - what was reported as his death - was typically ingenious. Building on the fact that Elvis had a twin brother Jesse who died at birth, WWN claimed that Jesse had in fact survived, brain damaged and hidden away, and that when Jesse died...
...Edwards makes less frequent mention these days, however, of his goal of eliminating poverty within 30 years. He has taken the passions that were stirred in him by the poverty tour and moved them up the economic ladder. Rallying people to help the have-nots has given way to rallying people to help themselves. That's smart-but not especially transformational-politics...
...teams. They acknowledge that what happens between team members is half the game but argue that it's the overemphasized, overanalyzed half. In their rendering, inner dynamics are best understood as they relate to the team's efforts to reach outward. That means shared timelines, transparent decision making and frequent meetings to integrate knowledge and efforts. And a bedrock for any successful team is a culture that supports frank discussion, even if it's about bad news or mistakes. How do you cultivate that sort of environment? Well, there might just be some use for corporate retreats after...
...wrath of Sunni insurgent groups when he visited Israel in the fall of 2004. There have been several attempts to assassinate him; his two sons were killed in one such attack. His Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation is tiny, but Alussi has a high profile because of his frequent appearance on TV news shows, where he rails against sectarianism and government corruption. This has earned him the respect of many Iraqis, and his personal popularity could make him a compromise candidate for Maliki...
...history we have in countries like the Netherlands and Norway with frequent flooding is that if you don’t want to see pictures of people trapped and drowning, you need to go in and get people to sign up if they need help ahead of time,” he said. “These...