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...seems as though every CEO in America has found his or her Inner Writer. The pioneer was Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, whose 1984 memoir, Iacocca, was a smash hit with 7 million copies in print. Then came GE CEO Jack Welch, who received $7 million for his 2001 tell-all, Jack: Straight from the Gut. Of course, there are motivations for writing a book besides money: the earnest desire to pass along lessons learned, the urge to settle a few scores, not to mention ego. This month brings three new CEO tomes that span the spectrum of management styles from...
...also awarded 12 Pioneer Awards, with Harvard professors receiving three of those...
Fifty years after becoming one of the first black students to attend Little Rock Central High—opening the door for the integration of Southern schools—one civil rights pioneer said she now feels “shame and horror” at the state of today’s public education. “There shouldn’t be such a thing as higher and lower education,” said Minnijean Brown-Trickey, 65, one of the “Little Rock Nine” widely covered in the media in 1957, speaking...
...could have lived with theburden of comparison to the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Rockabilly pioneer Janis Martin did. In the mid-1950s, riding the success of Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel, RCA discovered the talented 15-year-old and dubbed her the "female Elvis." Though she privately winced at the moniker, Martin--who preferred the sound of Carl Perkins--lived up to the billing with a booming voice, gyrating hips and appearances on American Bandstand and the Tonight Show. She faded in the late '50s, but her records, including Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll...
...Growing up in a working-class section of Senegal's capital Dakar, Kane listened to European music on the radio and fell in love with the Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer Fela Kuti, whose own music reflected a melee of African and Western styles. As is common in his home country, Kane had trouble finding work. Many young Senegalese dream of making a living abroad, some of whom brave a treacherous journey in the open seas on rickety boats to get to Europe...