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...PHIL KNIGHT Nike CEO will end child labor and improve factories abroad. Go, Phil--now hike that minimum wage...
Checchi's management skills have been coming under attack by Davis, who is buying heavy TV time to slug away at Checchi's stewardship of Northwest Airlines, which he acquired in a 1989 leveraged buyout. Checchi portrays his time at Northwest as a classic "white knight" tale--spent reforming management and saving the airline--while Davis says Checchi's takeover saddled the company with so much debt that he drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. There is truth to both claims: Northwest is healthier now than it was before Checchi came along, but during the recession...
DOWNSIZED BY THE DIRECTOR In his documentary The Big One, anti-corporate crusader Michael Moore visits Nike CEO Phil Knight to challenge the shoe company's use of cheap Indonesian labor. In the film Knight seems evasive, edgy and ultimately tripped up by Moore's relentless interrogation. But did the filmmaker unfairly tailor Knight's appearance? In an effort to wipe the treadmarks off his reputation, Knight has put outtakes on Nike's Website www.nikebiz.com) There Moore, who comes off as an attack dog in the film, is heard purring to Knight, "I honestly think you're the good...
Unfortunately, Springfest is like the Black Knight from The Holy Grail: it refuses to die even though it has no way to support itself. The administration has proved that it will never allocate enough money to buy big-name bands and that it will never relax its alcohol policies enough to allow for a true college-style "fest." And the council seems more preoccupied with fighting the administration over frozen yogurt at Annenberg than with lobbying for better Springfest entertainment...
Unfortunately, Springfest is like the Black Knight from The Holy Grail: it refuses to die even though it has no way to support itself. The administration has proved that it will never allocate enough money to buy big-name bands and that it will never relax its alcohol policies enough to allow for a true college-style "fest." And the council seems more preoccupied with fighting the administration over frozen yogurt at Annenberg than with lobbying for better Springfest entertainment...