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...anyone who wants to rent a general, the place to go is Military Professional Resources Inc., headquartered in a squat, red brick office building in Alexandria, Virginia. Eight years old and with annual revenues of about $12 million, MPRI is, according to its brochure, "the greatest corporate assemblage of military expertise in the world." With 160 full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals, admirals and other officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among its most prominent executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono, who ran the Army during Desert Storm and now heads...
Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Dayton accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian government to hire MPRI or a competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science Applications International). Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says...
...Time Inc.'s editor of new media for the past two years, I helped create products--like Pathfinder, our Internet service--that had no models or histories. Every day we faced issues for which there were no precedents to rely upon or be constrained by. Now I'm facing the opposite challenge, one that is no less exciting: helping invent a product that has been invented and reinvented nearly 3,800 times--every week for almost 73 years--and has a wealth of tradition unsurpassed by any other magazine that has ever existed...
MONEY magazine, a Time Inc. publication, announced it had dismissed celebrity financial columnist Dan Dorfman following Dorfman's refusal to reveal his sources to the magazine's editor. Dorfman is the subject of a federal inquiry into possible securities-law improprieties arising from his relationships with sources...
...future of public service at Harvard seems far from clear. On June 30, Greg A. Johnson '72, former executive director of PBH and current executive director of Phillips Brooks House, Inc. (PBHA), Gail L. Epstein, director of public service programs at the Office of public service, and Ginny Read, staff assistant for the Office of Public Service (OPS), will be wiped off the Harvard payroll...