Word: placidness
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...during the year, he was forced out. Into the void stepped two new co-CEOs who formally take over next year: Mack, a former president of Morgan Stanley who arrived at CSFB in 2001, and German Oswald Grübel, a three-decade Credit Suisse veteran. Even in placid times, a two-headed creature in the CEO's suite can be a problem. But Mack and Grübel were parachuted into a storm. They can blame prior management, and harsh markets. But some of Credit Suisse's rivals have fared much better. Last week UBS, Switzerland's largest bank...
...crimes, nationalism, teenagers, the World Cup, second-rate writers, third-rate politicians: no matter what he's discussing, Haruki Murakami appears strangely, almost disconcertingly placid. During nearly three hours of conversation, emotion flickers across the face of the most popular Japanese writer since Yukio Mishima precisely once. After a wry put-down of a rival novelist, his eyes sparkle with mischief and his lips curl into a smile. But Murakami's words-both written and spoken-are a different matter. Listen to them carefully and you soon realize he is brimming with passion. As American novelist Jay McInerney puts...
Clarkson coach Mark Morris, though, said the move is hard on his team’s fans, who only had to drive a couple hours to get from the Potsdam, N.Y., campus to Lake Placid...
...Lake Placid was great for our fans,” Morris said. “Our fans grew accustomed to having [the tournament] in their backyard...
...highlight came on his double-loop, double-overtime game-winning goal against Brown. The play, which punched Harvard’s ticket to Lake Placid, became an instant Crimson classic...