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...Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) The Jury that year was headed by Quentin Tarantino, and at the closing night ceremony, when Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that his panel was "delighted" with its choice...
Nonaka also underestimated the difficulty of selling her plan internally. She reorganized Sanyo's 300 subsidiaries into three divisions, environment, energy and lifestyle, and began marketing new products such as a battery that could be recharged with a solar panel and a washing machine that recycled water. These moves were a hard sell at a proud manufacturing company like Sanyo, which started by making bicycle lamps in 1947 and is best known for refrigerators and batteries. "Talking about the environment doesn't send a good message to the old-timers who made Sanyo what it is," says Hideyo Waki...
Harvard seems to recognize the importance of a veteran presence on its graduate campuses and seeks to capitalize on the knowledge they bring. In February, the Kennedy School brought together a panel of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and featured a keynote address from Lieutenant General Douglas E. Lute, Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.The event brought together a panel of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and featured a keynote address from Lieutenant General Douglas E. Lute, Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...After the service, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine announced that he is appointing an independent panel to review the authorities' handling of the massacre, to look at how police and university officials responded to the shootings and whether they had missed earlier warning signs that Cho was troubled. Meanwhile, the shootings had a ripple effect on campuses across the U.S. Universities and schools in at least 10 states were forced to lock down or evacuate on Tuesday, some after discoveries of notes that alluded to the shootings and threatened worse violence and others after reports of suspicious activity. On Tuesday evening...
...when it’s finished responding, it won’t look anything like the earth we have now. By now, you’ve probably heard the litany of changes, which was repeated in stark terms in last Friday’s report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): higher sea levels, more extreme weather events, decreased agricultural production in many regions, severely threatened ecosystems, and mass extinctions of hundreds of thousands of species...