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...University’s various responses to dealing with joiners are, at best, unclear. Well-meaning catchphrases like “slow down” and “taking time off” have made frequent appearances in recent official publications targeted at students, but they are nearly always accompanied by—and subservient to—the University’s extollment of achievement...
Lafley has urged employees as well as board members to make more frequent store visits. He wants the company to work more closely with powerful retailers like Wal-Mart and CVS to reach consumers at what he calls the "first moment of truth" in the store. (There's a reason so many snazzy new graphics and displays are showing up in the aisles.) He has sold off underperforming products that don't fit the new mix, like Jif peanut butter and Crisco shortening...
...logically turn its attention to increasing the supply of people capable of doing the work that the new economy rewards.” His visionary plans to revitalize education in Massachusetts, coupled with his intelligent proposals on health care and many other issues—not to mention his frequent visits to Harvard, speaking to students as he is today at 1 p.m.—make Robert Reich our choice to be the Democratic candidate for governor...
...Race is a frequent subject in this book, and not a happy one. Naipaul has been praised for being consistent in his crustiness, but his consistency is often little more than the rehashing of tired observations. "They have the Negro openness to new faiths," he writes of the black population of Anguilla. In Belize, "Negroes in jackets and ties?famous throughout Central America for their immunity to disease?walk behind the hearses" and "The Premier is a man of mixed race: Maya Indian, European, some seepage of African." In Mauritius, he insists that the Foreign Minister Gaetan Duval...
...members of Hejl's crew have allegedly been involved in crimes committed around the ship's homeport, including a break-in, a carjacking and attempted marijuana smuggling. 'There had been some minor incidents from time to time before, but never anything like house-breaking, or incidents in such frequent succession,' says Yoshiaki Yasuda, liaison to the Navy's Yokosuka base for the Kanagawa prefectural government, which, along with the Yokosuka government, formally complained to the U.S. Navy twice in August. Extra-curricular shore leave activities weren't the only reason for Hejl's dismissal. The 41-year-old Kitty Hawk...