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...lead a company through these uncertain times. Being a CEO has always been tough, but as the parade of corporate top guns at the Fortune conference attested, it?s never been tougher. Take Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines. By most accounts, Bethune was a corporate hero prior to Sept. 11. When he took over at Continental in 1994, he set a simple goal: be on time. From that flowed a host of seemingly conventional values that worked magic on the company. On Sept. 10, the airline was first in on-time performance, first among customer surveys and among...
...film attempts to make Newman into a hero with the quietly dramatic ending. However, it is hard to dismiss the prejudice and hatred he had for Jews throughout the script. In reality, he is no hero—he is an everyman, one who has striven his entire life only for calm, order and self-preservation. When he becomes associated with the people he hates, he comes eventually to realize several things about the nature of prejudice and the experience of being victimized mentally and physically. However, his actions are by no means heroic, and so Focus sends a powerful...
Billed at tonight’s farewell dinner as the local “culinary hero,” Child remains a living legend. By the time she moved to Cambridge, she had already completed most of the work on Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the legendary text she published in 1961. Her first cooking show aired on public television...
Richard Dawkins is my hero. I read his opus The Selfish Gene in high school and it rocked my world. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his beautiful prose style and beguiling ideas, Richard Dawkins is arguably the most prominent evolutionary thinker of our time (sorry Gould, I think he has you beat hands down). His major contribution to evolutionary theory has been the concept of the gene as the fundamental unit of natural selection, not the organism or the species. He conceives of organic beings designed by genes as gigantic Rube Goldberg contraptions meant...
...Sputnik in the title is derived from a character who confuses it with novelist Jack Kerouac (a beatnik), a hero of the heroine who turns out to be quite spacey herself; a pun is also intended since sputnik in Russian means "fellow traveler." Sumire, a compulsive wanna-be writer, is loved by a young male teacher but she herself has an unrequited crush on an older woman. On a trip to a Greek island with her "girlfriend," the sapphic Sumire disappears "just like smoke." And what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds...