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...small talk with Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The longtime Danish Prime Minister and new Secretary-General of NATO likes to get down to business quickly. Meetings have to achieve something tangible, notes a colleague. In private briefings before he took on his new job at the beginning of August, Rasmussen was "very focused," says Fabrice Pothier, director of the European office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "There's no bullshit. It's 'Give me some concrete, doable recommendations.'" Two days in, Rasmussen, who at 56 is just four years younger than the military alliance itself, headed to Afghanistan...
Give Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), points for speed. Within hours of the DPJ's historic general-election victory on Aug. 30, Hatoyama was conferencing by phone with the leaders of South Korea and Australia, meeting with journalists and otherwise behaving as Japan's next Prime Minister - which he certainly will become in just a few weeks. "We have finally reached the starting line," Hatoyama told reporters on Aug. 31, leaving little doubt that he was eager to get on with governing. (Read "Japan's Election: Opposition Wins Historic Victory...
...different race than the rest of the field did, finishing 2.45 sec. - a bus length - ahead of her nearest rival. But it wasn't just her performance that set her apart. While the other runners sported ponytails and nail polish, Semenya was conspicuously masculine. After the final, the general secretary of the IAAF, Pierre Weiss, explained that inquiries into Semenya's gender would involve a gynecologist, a psychologist and specialists in hormones and internal medicine. If they concluded Semenya was male, Weiss said, "we will withdraw her name from the results." Said Italian Elisa Cusma Piccione, who placed sixth...
...worst thing that will ever happen to him is when he and I meet in the room and I close the door.' ROBERT BENMOSCHE, the new CEO of AIG, referring last month in a closed-door meeting to New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, who recently pressed Congress to release the names of the AIG employees receiving retention bonuses...
...What, then, does Bloom’s appointment signal? His job encompasses a broad range of industries, from the steel mills he has helped organize in his position with the United Steel Workers to the Big Three automakers—Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler—in Detroit. Bloom and Keilin have already proven that worker ownership can work—since, before the United deal, they made their reputation by advising steel workers in buying out their employers...