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Despite the tenets of alienation and disillusionment upon which punk and grunge were founded, the act of selling rebellion to the masses became dependent upon making music with far-reaching commercial appeal. Although this required the purveyors of such music to all but abandon the ethos of rebellion against the...
GE has been the exception to the rule that conglomerates are clumsy beasts doomed to underperformance. In the two decades since he took the helm from Reginald Jones, another legend, the wiry, intense Welch, son of a train conductor from Salem, Mass., has turned a sprawling $27 billion-a-year...
A potential stumbling block is, quite simply, GE's size. At some point, skeptics argue, GE will find it nearly impossible to continue its torrid pace of growth. "Ultimately, the law of large numbers will have to win out," William Fiala, an analyst at Edward Jones, wrote in a report...
How little depth there used to be in women's sports is truly stunning. In the 1930s and '40s, Babe (Call Me Babe) Zaharias could traipse nonchalantly from being the greatest female track star to being the best female golfer. As recently as the late '50s, Althea Gibson, who won...
It?s time for somebody outside the Army to get this post. The Army has had the last three chairmanships - I guess Gen. David Jones was the last Air Force guy to have it, and that?s been 20 years. You could make the argument that it was about time...