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...Michael Dell has not stepped aside. The 38-year-old whiz kid is still very much at the helm as chairman and CEO, but he and Rollins, 50, are "two in a box"--Rollins' term for an operating system that has proved hard to beat. Just ask the merged Hewlett-Packard/Compaq, whose share of worldwide computer sales dropped to 15.8% in the first quarter, from 17% in the same period last year, and which is now eating byte dust as No. 2. "Most companies became nervous and conservative during the downturn, but Dell used it to step...
...scent of India. Except for proper names, the book's vernacular and cultural references are almost entirely American, and impressively authentic at that. The hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying the reader to accept him. Yet there's something charmingly retro about Bahal's "outlaw" approach. His closest literary parallel is with the Beats: the grim, druggy surrealism of William S. Burroughs, the headlong rush of Jack Kerouac...
...Critics see Roh's appointment of liberal lawyers and activists to run the NIS as a political gambit to further his policy of engagement with the North. With Ko at the helm, "the agency will be pro-North Korean," fumes Chung Hyung Keun, a conservative lawmaker and former spy catcher. Chung defends some of the NIS abuses, saying that too much focus on them has made martyrs of men like Kim Nak Joong, who Chung says was indeed a spy and accepted money from North Koreans. Adds Lee Dong Bok, a former intelligence official: "The agency is our last bulwark...
...limited to this university. When we looked outside Harvard’s gates and organized a discussion among higher education’s top female leaders, we learned of similar struggles at other schools like Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania (See “Women at the Helm,” page...
...year ago, Harvard’s art museum officials expected that by now they’d have a new art museum under construction. Instead, without a permanent director at their helm, they struggle to manage an ailing building that hasn’t seen major repairs since...