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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...money-management firm with a nice-guy culture was looking for an eats-nails-for-breakfast, kick-butt manager to run a new area of its portfolio. The first hire was aggressive with a capital A. In an office where flamboyant egos were scarce, the hotshot's first move was to order $200,000 worth of office furniture. "He needed to be a star," reports Elaine Eisenman of Management & Capital Partners, whose firm was enlisted to find a better match. The new guy flamed in four months, just long enough to get the furniture delivered. You know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Work In Progress: Aggression Loses Some Of Its Punch | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Poly computer-science major who accepted a $70,000 starting salary--plus a signing bonus and stock options--to join a Microsoft team that will develop new software from the ground up. Antitrust troubles or not, Microsoft is still a cool company, and it wooed Murarka and other hotshot prospects with an all-expenses-paid visit to Hollywood, capped off by tickets to the Grammy Awards. "We had a blast," says Murarka. "Everyone who went to the show ended up joining Microsoft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Still Wanted | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...ends well? In their first serious foreign policy test, the neophyte Bushies have met the Chinese challenge over Hainan with deftness and aplomb - tough on the basics, creative on the fine line between "regret" and "apology." The troops are home; the spy plane that was almost decapitated by a hotshot Chinese pilot will follow - after the Chinese have taken apart every radar, sensor and computer inside. But this was neither the beginning nor the end of the great U.S.-Chinese duel that will dominate 21st century diplomacy as did the Soviet-American contest in the 20th. For the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Fading Red Label | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...Scott's Son... There are a couple of major productions going up this weekend. One of them is rumored to be a spectacular bust (which makes it worth seeing, no?), while the other-Stephen Scott's Son-should be a resounding triumph. Directed by Andrew Boch and written by hotshot playwright Michael Ragozzino '01, Scott's Son examines the differences between fame and greatness in a fanciful story of father and son. It's building buzz and will be a hot ticket when it opens in the Loeb Ex this Thursday night...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the (K)now | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...future, some hotshot young coach from a developing program might talk about a double standard in officiating that exists with Duke...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whoopty-Duke: Partial Refs Taint Glorious Run | 4/3/2001 | See Source »

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