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...firms resigned last November following criticism that his relationship with former clients was keeping him from cracking down on corporate scandal. President Bush appointed a successor, former brokerage and insurance executive William Donaldson. But with Donaldson's nomination not yet approved by the Senate, Pitt is still at the helm--and wielding more power than ever...
...agree that the affirmative action program at Michigan, like many other universities, is flawed. The problem is two-fold, though: the ones at the helm of the program think they are leveling the playing field by having pity, ironically treating blackness as an achievement (when for so long it has been treated as a liability), and fellow students and teachers are suspicious of the black students’ intelligence and worthiness of admission...
...company the size of Fiat has a certain pulling power, which can reflect itself in certain things that are done in the country." Agnelli's business losses were compounded by personal ones. A year after he had chosen his nephew Giovanni Alberto to be his heir at Fiat's helm, the 33-year-old died of cancer, in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's own son Edoardo Agnelli committed suicide by leaping from a viaduct. Fiat today could surely use some of the old Agnelli style. Gianluca Pediconi, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in Milan, says the automaker...
After 12 years at the helm of Currier House, Master William A. Graham and Co-Master Barbara S. Graham will step down at the end of the academic year, they announced to House residents in an e-mail yesterday...
Fernandez’s emotional speech concluded tearfully as she thanked her friends and parents, who had made the trip from Florida. She also commented on how she has learned from some of the less pleasant aspects of being at the helm...