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Last, but certainly not least, there has been a widely publicized feud between the head honcho of the Summer School—Dean of Continuing Education and Extension Michael Shinagel—and a certain Summer School faculty member, Professor Hue Briss. Apparently, Dr. Briss had been taking his students to Red Sox games instead of holding class. Shinagel summoned him to a meeting where it was suggested that perhaps doing one’s job is the best way of doing one’s job. Briss had never been challenged by anyone, ever, about anything, and was extremely...
...Fields faces challenges that he never had at Mazda. He is taking over from the veteran Wolfgang Reitzle, a former BMW honcho respected for his product-development and engineering acumen. Analysts say Jaguar would not be in the black without Reitzle's insistence that the automaker not skimp on such engineering details as the six-speed gearbox in the S-Type. Some Ford watchers, though, say Reitzle's departure was timely. "Wolfgang was great on the brand side, but he was always banging heads against people on the cost side of the business," says analyst Scott Hill of Sanford...
...proclivity for money and women, was a smooth-talking, scrupulously clad gangster christened the "Dapper Don" for his fashion sense. He took over the Gambino crime syndicate in 1985 after masterminding a Hollywood-style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti got a life term in prison on multiple racketeering and murder charges. DIED. TAHSEEN BASHEER, 77, spokesman for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat; in London. A staunch believer in peace between the Arab nations and Israel...
...year old group, which deserted the network in Sydney, shot up 31% over the last winter games. "One of the most important lessons to be learned from Sydney was that we had to get back a fair share of the lost 18-34 year olds," said NBC's Sports honcho Dick Ebersol. That's why NBC hammered away at X events in its pre-Olympic promotions...
...deal for three reasons. The first - that Enron stock was dirt cheap - went sour when Enron's stock continued to slide even faster than Dynegy's, but the renegotiations looked likely to rectify that. The other two were about structure - Dynegy wanted to take over as the energy-trading honcho by folding its own trading operation into Enron's powerhouse, and it wanted to beef up its real energy-production assets by acquiring Enron subsidiary Northern Natural Gas, a pipeline network that runs from the upper Midwest down to Texas...