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...support Moore expect his politics to come from the far-far Left, not the Clintonian middle ground, and rightfully so. This is the same guy who exposed and humiliated General Motors C.E.O. Roger Smith as a depraved corporate crook in Roger and Me and publicly lambasted Nike C.E.O. Phil Knight as a supporter of child labor in The Big One. This is a guy whose entire career has been defined by an unabashed and ruthless brand of Leftist principle (often at the expense of unprepared corporate officials and conservative bureaucrats), someone who represents moral outrage and progressive idealism, not pragmatic...
...guided the development of Boeing's last plane, the stakes couldn't be higher. In the early 1990s, Phil Condit was the program manager for the 777 and Alan Mulally was the chief engineer. Now Condit runs the entire company and Mulally is head of commercial airplanes. Over the past three years, Boeing has lurched from one new design to another--only to back off ideas abruptly. One proposal, the sleek and futuristic Sonic Cruiser that Boeing promised would fly faster than other any plane except the Concorde, captured the imagination of the aviation world--but not of the airlines...
...This reaffirms what we already know, that this was not about one man's compensation but about a culture gone awry." PHIL ANGELIDES, California treasurer, on the disclosure that co-presidents of the New York Stock Exchange are each entitled to $22 million upon retirement. Former N.Y.S.E . chairman Richard Grasso resigned last month after it was revealed that his compensation package totaled $187.5 million...
...evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in Pakistan's tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed just across the border in a skirmish with suspected Taliban guerrillas. --By Phil Zabriskie. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain
...roots, everyone is baffled to learn, are in some Shtetls on the Russian-Polish border. I want to explain that my soul has roots in the poetry that’s created here. But I keep my mouth shut, having concluded that behavior considered normal amongst devotees of Phil Fisher’s English 165: “Joyce, Modernism and Aestheticism” class is considered downright loony by everyone else...