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...annual revenue per user of $845. That's more than twice the $385 per user at Telecom Italia. The company forecasts a pretax loss of around $300 million for 2003, but Scaglia expects to break even in 2005. He's proving that it can pay to be a technology maverick--even in the post-dotcom era. --By Mark Halper
...nickname: Lt. Col. Dick "Blood" Banks, Capt. Kevin "Sidler" Kohl and Capt. Mike "Chanel" Chavannes. I too had a call sign, buried under a stream of acronyms and numbers that were scrawled on a whiteboard: TMD. Time Magazine Dude. I would have preferred something a bit more like "Maverick," but TMD worked for me. My duties were also noted on the whiteboard: "Rage in a killing machine." Now that was more like...
...generation of drug lords are using fear to try to silence reporters. Williams and his family are being protected by armed police after a plot to attack him at his home was uncovered last month. Perhaps inevitably, the film over-simplifies the reasons behind Guerin's maverick ways. There's no doubt she was driven, but some think her role as the Sunday Independent's star reporter may have pushed her to be reckless. "She wasn't on a mission to fight crime, she was on a mission to get stories," says Paddy Prendiville, Guerin's best friend and editor...
...scene begins like any number of classic Hollywood crime dramas as maverick detective Shunsaku Aoshima swaggers along Tokyo's glittering waterfront, headed for action. With disheveled hair, necktie loosened rakishly and a cigarette dangling from his lips, he looks every bit the renegade cop. But when Aoshima reaches his destination, he hesitates and looks around sheepishly?there's no place for him to flick his cigarette! It's not nice to litter. What if someone sees him? Or complains? He sighs, pulls an ashtray from his coat, stabs out the butt, rolls his eyes and heads inside...
Perhaps it is not a coincidence, then, that the biggest critic of grade inflation at Harvard is an alumnus-turned-professor. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is a right-wing maverick who loves causing a stir. Mansfield’s philosophy revolves around an abstract concept of fairness, and he decided last fall that Gov 97a—a requirement for all government concentrators—would be graded such that no more than one fifth of students received...