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...have impressed somebody, because they asked me if I'd find you to see if you'd like to introduce the President again." I said, "Boy, what a thrill! Absolutely! Just tell me when and where." And she said, "Well, the where is Pennsylvania Avenue and the when is Jan. 20, 1957. You're going to be the President's announcer." Then she asked, "Will you charge a fee? Because our parade budget is very minimal." And I said, "No, as a matter of fact, to be honest, I'd pay you for the honor...
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...noon on Jan. 20, Barack Obama will take the oath of office and President George W. Bush will cease to be the most powerful person in the free world. Instead, he'll become a guy who might be the most powerful person in the wealthy Dallas enclave his family is moving to after Washington. Might be. So what's a former president to do? Bush has said he's going to work on his library, write a memoir, and earn some bank on that mythical "speaking circuit" that has proved so remunerative for Presidents past. His immediate predecessors include...
Ever since Jan. 7, when news broke of a $1 billion corporate-accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services, the scandal has been called India's Enron. There are many similarities: inflated assets, a disgraced but politically powerful chairman, an auditor under a cloud, even an attempted suicide. (Satyam's chief financial officer, Srinivas Vadlamani, was unsuccessful. Enron executive J. Clifford Baxter died.) There is one big difference. Enron imploded, and its employees were kicked to the curb. But Satyam's workers, who number about 50,000, may be spared sweeping layoffs...
...staying out of loyalty to the company. "I can't deny that I'm in a dilemma," says D. Ramesh Krishnan, another software engineer. "I have been with Satyam for 10 years ... I feel a certain affiliation to the organization. But I also worry about my future." On Jan. 15, several hundred Satyam employees gathered outside Chanchalguda prison in Hyderabad, where Raju is being held, to express support for their former boss. Indian corporate culture has long been grounded by an unspoken bond between workers and management that is based on loyalty and an employer's sense of responsibility...