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When you've found fame and fortune for having a blue head, it can be tricky to figure out your next career move. The obvious avenues--opening a chain of blue-food restaurants or being the second person of color to be elected President--present significant obstacles. And aside from Braveheart and some of Picasso's girlfriends, there just aren't that many blue role models...
Absolutely. That's obvious. Just look at Keith Olbermann. They are now targeting the audience that I figured I might be able to get. I thought people would watch me because I was different. Silly goose. We turned out to be a big embarrassment to MSNBC. In October 2002, if you were a board member of General Electric, you didn't want a retired, gray-haired talk show host popping off against this war or this president. It wasn't good for business. If you were against the war, you risked being called liberal. And if your cable channel...
...many consumers, however, Circuit City's most obvious failing was its customer service. In March 2007, it announced plans to lay off its highest-paid hourly employees, including salespeople, and replace them with cheaper workers. That same year, then CEO Philip Schoonover received some $7 million in compensation. It may come as no surprise, then, that a quick Web search on "Circuit City complaints" brings up hundreds of thousands of entries...
...It’s not immediately obvious to everyone what it’s all about,” said Anne Harrington, chair of the history of science department. “To some people it just seems like you do some history and you do some science, but the intellectual heart of the program is to ask big questions about the stakes of science, not just to do it but why it matters...
...difficult questions about how to close Guantánamo continue to vex legal minds ranging from Katyal to the advisers now gathering around President-elect Barack Obama. "This is a huge and difficult problem," says Katyal, who teaches national-security law at Georgetown University. "I don't actually see obvious answers...