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...Both Hewlett and Fiorina have staked their claim to what the founders dubbed "the HP way," a phrase that at first embodied the ideals of innovation and good corporate citizenship but has come to mean many things to many people over the past 60 years. Now two polar-opposite visions of the company's destiny--indeed, of how best to survive in today's rough-and-tumble tech economy--have taken shape. When the smoke clears, there will be only...
...polar opposite of Daniel Pearl's intellectual curiosity was the sort of dogmatism that took his life. An ideologue with a closed mind killed a splendid young man with an open mind. Not the first time that the desire to know has been murdered by the need not to know. Half the world belongs to candlesnuffers--to people who have no curiosity to find out, so to speak, how to take off or land...
...clothes? If there was, it Astaire seemed relaxed; Kelly?s body was tense, like an Olympic skater planning the big jump and knowing how much was at stake, how much to be lost. Astaire, who never appeared to entertain the possibility that he could lose, had a magnificent diffidence, polar opposite to the neediness Kelly suggested. Gene?s trademark - the outstretched arms, grasping for a connection with the little people out there in the dark - hinted at the overachieving of a fellow who begged, demanded to be loved...
...Their techniques were polar opposites as well. "Gene always liked to dance low," Charisse says, "and Fred always liked to dance high." Fred had an ethereal buoyancy, the ability to walk on air, and dance on it, and not make a big deal of it. Gene had gravity. His power would burrow up from the floor, through his powerful thighs, up to his strong, sloping shoulders; and he?d hit those tap steps hard, nailing them, pounding them into the floor so hard they almost left permanent depression marks in the wood. You saw the grinding work, as much...
...polar opposite of Daniel Pearl's intellectual curiosity was the sort of dogmatism that took his life. An ideologue with a closed mind killed a splendid young man with an open mind. Not the first time that the desire to know has been murdered by the need not to know. Half the world belongs to candlesnuffers - to people who have no curiosity to find out, so to speak, how to take off or land...