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Every four years, a new generation of athletes appears from nowhere to grab the headlines and occupy prime time, upstaging aging heroes. Hard-nosed young swimmers from the U.S., Australia and Europe arrived on the world stage last week at Sydney's International Aquatic Centre, bewitching spectators with their triumphs in the water; six teenagers are taking home a total of eight individual gold medals from the 26 solo events contested in the pool. The class of 2000 did not come to Sydney to watch and learn - they came to win. Along with the tough-talking Quann, there was Ukrainian...
Each year, 10 percent of university presidents decide it's time to move on. According to Marlene Ross, the director of the National Presidents' Study at the American Council on Education, this year the turnover may seem higher because institutions like Harvard, Princeton and Brown tend to grab media attention...
When these corporate higher-ups describe their coaching sessions, they sound suspiciously--well, shrinky. But coaching is not therapy, practitioners insist. Neither is it mentoring, training or some other form of repackaged management skills. Actually, it's a grab bag of techniques that combine bits of all these with "nuggets of wisdom" from arenas as diverse as football and 12-step programs. Sometimes what a coach does, says Kathleen Phillips, an in-house coach at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the former management-consulting arm of Ernst & Young, is help a client see a problem--or a problem job--a different...
...prizes. Texas is Bush country. But if Bush does not win Florida, with its 25 electoral votes, he will have to make a clean sweep of the battleground states in the Midwest to win. And if he's not winning over the moderate voters of Florida, he may not grab the moderate voters of Missouri or Pennsylvania...
...content with just hearing what your professor has to say, or what the New York Times has to say," Brinton told students. "Grab a Wall Street Journal, grab a Washington Times, grab a [Harvard] Salient...