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...Michael Jordan is God, then Phil Knight put him in heaven. By paying Jordan and other athletes millions to endorse his shoes, the chairman and CEO of Nike has helped turn them into household names ... [Knight] is the master of the mantra of the age ('Just Do It') and the proprietor of Nike's unmistakable swoosh, the icon that has turned the lowly sneaker into winged sandals ... Knight's stars are frontiersmen, exponents of an in-your-face brand of American optimism. And thus sports, as Knight has asserted, are 'the culture of the U.S.' By exporting the culture...
...when Chairman Mao Zedong ordered high school graduates to learn from the peasantry, Li spent three years raising fish and rice. Today his company, TCL, based not far from the old commune in Guangdong province, is looking far beyond the paddies. The goal: to transform TCL into a worldwide household name. "When I hit problems along the way," says Li, 47, "I think, This is nothing like what I faced down on the farm...
Limiting irritants is important too. Certainly, no one in an asthmatic's household should smoke. Allergies to mites can be controlled with a mattress cover. Sensitivity to air pollution can be treated with filters. But it's important to pinpoint exactly what problem a child has. Getting rid of the family pet may be a solution, unless it turns out the child wasn't allergic to the animal in the first place...
...much of the motivational talk at work doesn’t actually mean anything. We learn that some families are well-adjusted and happy, even if they don’t quite understand how to grow out of traditional family roles. To compare, there are also examples of different household organizations like “my wife wears the pants” and no father/single mother. Oddly enough, they’re all played for laughs...
...it’s the chess board on the screen in front of him that is Turnbull’s most identifying feature. In spite of a peripatetic early life—growing up in an academic household, dropping out of Harvard, living homeless in Berkeley—Turnbull, a member of the Class of 1971, is today known best as “The Chessmaster” of Harvard Square...