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Indeed, even Philbin--the guy who does monologues about every dinner he eats and when he hosted Millionaire proclaimed, "I'm saving the network!"--finally says the key to the job is remembering that it's not about you. Whether you're talking to George Clooney or a guy with an oven on his face, it's about "putting aside your ego and making your guests be better with you than they would with anybody else...
...trying to master the database program Microsoft Access. Though a student once told Maxwell that typing was something he could leave to his daddy's secretary, the school insists that all first-year students learn to type, so that they can use their mandatory laptops on the fiber-optic network that links every classroom and bedroom to teaching resources and the Internet. Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class. The questions are earnest and Maxwell is able to illustrate his answers on a giant whiteboard onto which an image from...
...journalist who left Eton in 1981 and now runs Breakingviews, an online financial commentary service, says that British businesses - the London financial markets in particular - are so much more competitive and international that the idea of advance based on the old school tie "is just not sustainable." The Eton network helps, but "even if you're bright, you're not going to get anywhere without effort." Because Etonians themselves now expect to work hard, having the school on your résumé doesn't raise the same worries it did 20 years ago. "No one has to live...
...media publicizing shortcomings in government, this nation would work ineffectively at its public business. [The press] talking about a generalized vulnerability we have--that trains aren't protected--and railing against it sufficiently is more likely to protect us than put us in peril. If you publish diagrams of network computer switching, that wouldn't be the case...
...morning in Beijing - which, since the city is 12 hours ahead of East Coast time, would position them ideally for a live U.S. broadcast. In a letter sent earlier this week to IOC President Dr. Jacques Rogge and obtained by TIME, Kerry Stokes, chairman of Australia's Seven Network, voiced strong objections...