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Handler, Barbie's most fervent advocate, was born in 1916, the 10th child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Though she married and had a family, she had little interest in staying at home with her children, Barbara and Ken (who resented their mother's naming her dolls after them). "If I had to stay home, I would be the most dreadful, mixed-up, unhappy woman in the world," she once said...
John Thain's swift departure as head of Bank of America's (BofA) Merrill Lynch unit after a 15-minute dustup with his boss, CEO Ken Lewis, is a consequence of friction that occurs when conflicting business maxims come into contact. And the fact that Thain must really love...
...advice to Ken: Don't go skiing. - With reporting by Stephen Gandel...
...notch organizational and political skills to being a successful chief of staff. The best of them are the ones who, by all outward appearances, have no motives or identity outside those of the President. "You are hired for your judgment. You are not hired with an independent agenda," explains Ken Duberstein, who held the job for six months under Ronald Reagan. "When you speak, the voice people hear is the President's voice, not your own." Indeed, if you ever hear anything at all about the chief of staff, that is probably not a good sign. (See also Sununu, John...
...foaming at the mouth. The number of patients bitten by infected animals jumped from 15 in December to 10 each day since the beginning of January, according to officials. "It could be that in the past few months, there were a number of cases that weren't reported," Ken Wirasandhi, the hospital's director of services, told the Kompas daily. (See the top 10 animal stories...