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...efforts to diversify. At the same time, it risks taking its eye off the jet business, which still accounts for about 60% of sales. But running a lean holding company removed from its operating divisions is the fashionable corporate architecture these days. And Condit believes a neutral perch is the best place to decide how to feed each of his hungry corporate chicks...
...general anonymity that comes with attending a 6,000-person school isn't nearly as strong at 6'2". People recognize me. Any physical trait that differs from the norm makes a person easily noticeable, and extreme height is the most easily identifiable of all. From my lofty perch, I stick out in a crowd; my taste for brightly colored clothing only adds to the phenomenon. Visibility can be a distinctly negative trait when trying to blend in with a group during the middle school years or when movie-hopping (I get caught). But visibility has its positive side; professors...
DIED. SIR DONALD BRADMAN, 92, self-taught cricket player and courtly Australian icon considered by many to be the pre-eminent sportsman of all time; in Adelaide, South Australia. His perch atop batting stats was said to be "as changeless as alphabetic order"; over his 20-year career, he racked up an average of 99.94 runs per innings, 30 runs more than the next best in the game. A recent book comparing the relative statistical achievements in a variety of sports put Bradman ahead of Michael Jordan, Ty Cobb and Pele. One of Australia's most beloved heroes...
...only solid nomination in this category. Not to say it's a perfect movie; while I loved a lot of things about this movie - particularly every scene with Benicio del Toro - there were moments of doubt, like when Michael Douglas' drug czar slipped so easily from his professional perch in order to address (cue very serious voice) the crisis in his own family. Overall, though, a brilliantly conceived epic...
...advocate to a top post in his administration. John J. DiIulio, a public policy scholar - and also, incidentally, a Democrat -was tapped earlier this week to run the administration's office of faith-based programs. Almost all of the articles and TV reports written about DiIulio, who has a perch at both the conservative Manhattan Institute and centrist Brookings Institution, have failed to mention his opposition to the death penalty - something that Bush has applied far more frequently than any politician in recent decades...