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...America's most profitable corporations (while pocketing a few hundred million of his own in the process), but the inescapable--albeit unstated--message of this book is that Grove's tremendous success owes a substantial debt to fate. In a high-tech economy where sudden change is the norm, the book reminds us that it takes more than a good head for business to survive...
...students per section -- which all too often becomes a norm of 20 students per section -- is a ridiculous number in the first place. As Knowles himself declared in an interview with Harvard Magazine last spring, "I should much rather have a discussion for 55 minutes with 12 people than with 20." For one thing, 12 people can actually fit around one of those tables in Sever...
While most seemed happy despite the four hour wait for the President, some were angered by the excessive security, as is the norm for a Presidential event...
Crises in the Gulf are always complicated, but this one has proved byzantine beyond the norm. The Kurds of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P.) are fighting the Kurds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.) with the help of Iraq and Iran respectively. At the same time, both factions are living under the protection of the U.S. Saddam's Republican Guard attacked Kurdish towns in northern Iraq, and high above the Persian Gulf, aging U.S. B-52s launched computer-guided cruise missiles at military installations far to the south. At what seemed to be the end of it all, Saddam...
Familiar partisan campaign images are the norm in the 10 weeks preceding the Nov. 5 election. Kerry is painting Weld as heartless, attempting to capitalize on the high negative ratings of prominent national Republicans...