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...think it certainly appears from the outside, and also in conversations with insiders that Rick Wagoner is already making a major difference in the company,” says H. Kent Bowen, Rauner professor of business administration at HBS. “First of all, he’s very smart. Secondly, he’s become CEO at a relatively young age, so in addition to focusing on changes in the near term, he has clearly a long-term view for the company...
...January, FAIR’s lawyers told The Crimson that a three-judge panel from the Third Circuit would hear oral arguments on the appeal in mid-March, but the Court has yet to take up the case. FAIR President Kent Greenfield, a law professor at Boston College, wrote in an e-mail last week that the Philadelphia-based court will likely hear arguments in the suit next month...
Smallville, featuring a teenage Clark Kent, is the No. 1 show on the WB, but the best onscreen version may be the deadpan, dead-on American Express ads on TV and the Internet featuring and in part written by Jerry Seinfeld. Does the comedian think Superman needs refurbishing? "I do," Seinfeld says. "I thought that they kind of botched it up. The last series of films really lost the whole essence of the appeal of the character." Seinfeld's Superman, who gets too much mayonnaise on his sandwich and can't figure out a DVD player, may be the most...
...does Superman really have a dark side? An identity even more secret than Clark Kent? A graphic novel called Red Son, written by Mark Millar, answers the question with another question: What if Superman had landed not in the wholesome bosom of Kansas but in the cold heart of Stalin's Soviet Union? Wearing a hammer and sickle on his chest instead of an S, Superman befriends Stalin and succeeds him when the Soviet leader dies. (Stalin, Millar notes astutely, is Russian for "man of steel.") With his rigid notions of right and wrong, telescopic sight and super-hearing that...
...Kent Haruf's previous novel wasn't just a book. It was a cause. When Plainsong was published five years ago, its gentle but indelible tale of people getting through life on the high plains of Colorado was adopted with a passion by independent booksellers, the same ones who had pushed Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain up the best-seller list. They did the trick for Plainsong too, which eventually was also nominated for a National Book Award...