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...John Pepper was one of several chief execs forced to disrupt its chummy corporate culture. As the newly appointed nonexecutive chairman of the Walt Disney Co., he may aim to keep things calm. A shareholder revolt forced the board to remove CEO Michael Eisner as chairman in 2004 and opt for a nonexec chair. Although Pepper lacks media experience, A.G. Edwards analyst Michael Kupinski says Disney will benefit from Pepper's global-branding background as it expands worldwide. With shares up 30% since October, Disney's shareholders have been as quiet as a you-know-what. --By Julie Norwell...
...first time ever, Social Analysis 10 (better known as Ec 10) is a divisible course—that is, students don’t have to sit through Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw’s year-long class and can opt to take just one semester...
...Zidane told a still-agonizing French public what had provoked the most notorious head-butt in the history of the game. Exactly what button had Marco Materazzi pushed to cause Zidane to forsake his teammates, and the still obtainable victory in Sunday's World Cup final, and instead to opt for the hollow satisfaction of corporal payback? What hateful words could have detonated the violence that provoked Zidane's ejection, and helped deny him and France the dream of a second world title in eight years? Millions of fans tuned in to an exclusive interview on France's Canal Plus...
...first time ever, Social Analysis 10 (aka Ec 10) is a divisible course—that is, students don’t have to sit through Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw’s year long class and can opt to take the one semester only. Non-economics concentrators who are interested in taking part of this introductory class will surely rejoice that they aren’t stuck for a full year...
...mention their race because he believes that school choices are contributing to racial division. De facto segregation between public and private education, he fears, will result in a system like Boston’s, where the majority of students who attend the public schools are minorities and where whites opt for private education. And this fear is being borne out, he says, by falling enrollment. The Cambridge system has shrunk by more than 1,000 students over the past three years, and the city’s schools have registered 11 consecutive years of enrollment decline...