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...home,” chronicles Sigur Rós’s journey through small towns as they spread their symphonic brilliance. The movie has been screened sporadically throughout the United States, and its forthcoming DVD release comes hot on the heels of double album “Hvarf-Heim.” Unfortunately, the CDs don’t quite live up to the visual and aural splendor of “Heima.” Sigur Rós has never been considered conventional, so it’s to be expected that “Heima?...
...Heim and Murphy, veterans of FORTUNE 500 companies, say they decided to write the book when they realized that "women consistently failed to support other women and even actively undermined their authority and credibility...
...Heim and Murphy are not shy about using words or taking positions that are bound to generate controversy. Take the term catfight, which they say refers to "the incontrovertible truth" that when women work together, they often clash. Catfights include spreading malicious gossip and rumors, divulging secrets and surreptitiously attacking one another in the presence of others, particularly bosses. In fact, the book was originally titled From Catfights to Colleagues until the authors ran into resistance to the C word. "Men and women are not the same," says Murphy. "We're different biologically, and we're different in personal relationships...
...others find truth in what Murphy and Heim assert. Says Susan Estrich, University of Southern California law professor and author of Sex and Power, "There's not a successful woman today who doesn't know that sometimes women are your best friends and sometimes they're your worst enemies." Estrich, who was the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, recalls that there was only one female law professor at Harvard at that time. "She used to almost consistently vote against any woman whose name came up for a professorship," says Estrich. "She'd look...
...Heim and Murphy embarked on their research "to understand why women behaved as they did in order to help them find a way out of this destructive behavior." In consulting and lecturing to about 50,000 people a year at more than 100 corporations and agencies, the authors kept encountering the same complaints...