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...down with a group of party firebrands to tell them Roh can't waste time on ideological infighting when the real priority should be reviving the drooping economy. Still, Seoul hasn't confirmed that it will meet the June deadline for dispatching troops, and a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last Friday: "We don't know when they're going." In his weekend speech, Roh promised to hit the ground running. "I'll tie up my shoes again," he said, "and run really hard." His soldiers are still waiting for orders to lace up their boots...
...therapist Overland Resource Group, which has helped giants like Ford Motor Co. and its unions rethink old habits. Overland told the unions and management that they should see each other not as warring parties but as businesses that need each other to survive. Overland set up a structure, called Joint Leadership Teams, to make sure the old "silos" (management in one silo, unions in another, never talking) came tumbling down. The meetings haven't exactly been love-ins. One blew up over employee travel passes, but the company called the unions the next day to work on a solution. "Gerard...
...could be more mergers, but Merck, for one, seems to have hit on the less-than-acquisitive solution of partnering with companies that may have a blockbuster in the works. Last month it struck an alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop and sell an experimental diabetes drug, a joint venture similar to the one Merck formed with Schering-Plough for cholesterol treatments Zetia and Vytorin...
...consider the joint resolution passed by Congress on Sept. 14, 2001, the template for the war in Afghanistan. It read in part, “the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States.” If that isn’t “congressional authorization,” what...
Harvard made two joint hires of junior faculty in film studies this fall, appointing Assistant Professor J.D. Connor ’92, also a Crimson editor, to VES and the English and American language and literature department, and Assistant Professor Despina Kakoudaki, who is on leave until the coming fall, to VES and the literature department...