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...Formula One (F1) racing, it generally means there is some kind of hazard or debris on the track. Drivers must temporarily slow down, and F1 crews typically use the opportunity to bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when a safety car rolled out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco[an error occurred while processing this directive] Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based...
...scene was similar on Monday when I sat in the press gallery and watched Saddam arrive in his natty dark suit with a silk pocket square, his improbably black hair and greying beard neatly trimmed. He sat quietly with his Koran in his lap for the first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished...
When we were selected last year as the new writers of the Bell Lap, many assumed that we would keep Catizone and Schonberger’s humorous and carefree torch burning. After a summer of reflection, however, we’ve decided that we can’t in good conscience use this venue for comedy, because there is nothing funny about abortion. But there is something funny about two preemies-done-good from Milwaukee having a weekly column in the Harvard newspaper. Well, to be honest, we’re only the interim writers, kind of like how Derek...
...Kathleen Taylor where she wants to travel next, and she has a laundry list ready: South Africa, Russia, Australia. Maybe it's the complimentary stays in the lap of luxury Taylor is guaranteed as the Four Seasons' new head of global business and hotel operations--a perk that should explain an average tenure of 17 years among company managers. But more likely, it's the sense of wonderment at the world that Taylor, 49, brings to her job. Describing new hotels in China, India and Italy, she gushes. Explaining why Four Seasons still builds new properties in the volatile Middle...
...looked at me and said, 'Would you sleep with me?' I said no. Then he said, 'Would you marry me?' I said maybe. Obviously on Monday I went in to resign. But Max apologized. Then I went to his house and saw him sitting with his daughters on his lap, hugging them so gently, and I thought to myself, If that man could love me half as much as he loves his children, I would be the happiest woman in the world...