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...government, formally complained to the U.S. Navy twice in August. Extra-curricular shore leave activities weren't the only reason for Hejl's dismissal. The 41-year-old Kitty Hawk recently failed an engineering assessment and earlier this year in Singapore struck a buoy while Hejl was at the helm. The dismissal of a carrier captain is rare, but with U.S. forces fighting the war on terrorism, the margin of error for those in charge has shrunk...
Sybil Knight, who has served since 1998 at the Maria L. Baldwin School (formerly the Agassiz School) on Oxford St., will take the helm of the Cambridge Rindge at Latin School (CRLS) Monday...
Well, not the whole thing, at least. Since Bronfman took the helm from his father Edgar Sr. in 1994 and uncorked a new, media-centric strategy, the family's holdings in Seagram, and now Vivendi, have lost 75% of their value and are currently around $1 billion. Seeking high-growth businesses, Bronfman ultimately jettisoned the famous spirits business, an unpopular move with part of the family. "From the beginning of this escapade, [Bronfman's uncle] Charles has been dead set against [it]," says a Bronfman-family insider. And to finance his $5.7 billion purchase of movie studio MCA/Universal...
Another name rolling off the presses was Harry Parker, who just concluded his 40th season at the helm of the Crimson program. Henley titles are common for Parker—he had already won 19 in his career entering this season—but to win the only three American titles at Henley this year was an entirely new experience—a sweet moment for Harvard crew...
...same percentage hate others who do the same. "We're in a period of corporate Watergate, and Nixons are popping up all over," says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas. Qualified executives are turning down CEO offers out of fear they might be taking the helm of a firm about to crumble under some new accounting fraud, impeding the searches of even the cleanest firms. Among those looking for a new CEO are Gap and J. Crew...