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...given a very substantial promotion after that," she says. Martin went from a high-profile job at Kodak as the chief aide to the CEO to president of global customer service and support, supervising more than 3,000 people worldwide. "Coming out was really frightening, to be honest," she admits. "I had never done anything like that in my life." She feared that her credibility with colleagues would suffer. Martin, now the vice president of corporate marketing for Blue Shield of California, says the reaction from her Kodak staff was "very, very positive and kind. One woman said that...
...honest, I don’t yet know if I like it. Our group has managed to avoid such negligence for half a decade, even after we splintered off across the country for college. We did a lot more at the court than merely play basketball: We relied on it to buffer the passage of time—to nostalgically quote A. Bartlett Giamatti—to socialize, and to continually reconnect with our original gang. In the court’s custody, we went from talking about girlfriends, to eventually attaining girlfriends, to losing girlfriends, and then back again...
...served for political advantage. They make up fully half the nation's population, and their good, I might add, has seldom been served for most of the past two centuries. That congressmen from across the political spectrum feel compelled to take their daughters' interests into account indicates an honest effort to do right by the nation, as well as someone they love. If Powell had not been swayed by his daughter, surely the legislators he preempted would have been influenced by theirs. In the final analysis, it is the way the legal system should work. And just...
...News Comes in Small Bytes Are we forgetting how to be honest in person...
...screen, the contrast with the cosmopolitan city he left behind - and the thought that a return might be years away - was almost as demoralizing as the dire reports themselves. "If I have to stay here another week, I think I'm going to go crazy, that's the honest truth," Wehde moaned. "I need to stop thinking about this, but it's impossible. If there were any girls here, that would help. But there aren't any, not really. The ones there are, they're religious. They won't talk to you." For now, he says, his only plans...