Word: inners
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...months ago, Liu Lichun didn't know her breast could contain cancer. No one had taught the 40-year-old Chinese woman from Inner Mongolia what the disease was. She'd never heard of a mammogram or mastectomy. It had thus never occurred to her that she would lose her left breast to the mysterious illness nor that such a loss would probably save her life...
...Part of that inner-Orange rift could stem from Tymoshenko's previous agreement to cede the Speakership of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament, to Yushchenko's forces. Now, however, with former Speaker Volodymir Lytvyn's bloc having made it back into parliament, Tymoshenko might co-opt his tiny faction as a makeweight, and give him the speakership as a "balancing" force. However, with their dramatic neck-to-neck racing, Yanukovych still retains a chance to get ahead of Tymoshenko and finish first. In this case, though, "makeweights" of the Lytvyn block and the Communist party who is also...
...seems as though every CEO in America has found his or her Inner Writer. The pioneer was Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, whose 1984 memoir, Iacocca, was a smash hit with 7 million copies in print. Then came GE CEO Jack Welch, who received $7 million for his 2001 tell-all, Jack: Straight from the Gut. Of course, there are motivations for writing a book besides money: the earnest desire to pass along lessons learned, the urge to settle a few scores, not to mention ego. This month brings three new CEO tomes that span the spectrum of management styles from...
Michael L. Ainslie, chair of the Posse Foundation, agreed, calling Bial “one of the most visionary people I’ve ever known...she has really changed the way college admissions look at kids from inner cities...
Former University President Derek C. Bok, who worked with Bial while she was a graduate student, noticed her ability to find students in inner cities and “somehow be able to see that they would be able to survive and do well...