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...book, Pinchot gives "The Intrapreneur's Ten Commandments." The first two: come to work each day willing to be fired; circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream. Such attitudes are not welcome in all companies. But Pinchot argues that large corporations can prosper in today's rapidly changing business environment only if they are willing to encourage employees with fresh ideas to come forward and bet their careers on new projects...
...themselves, young people support Reagan for a variety of emotional and non-intellectual reasons. Among them: feeling secure with a macho president; knowing their expected affluence will not be touched by a laisse-faire president; having a leader who does not demand more from them than that they prosper, multiply, and maybe pray...
Your report on the agreement for the return of Hong Kong to China [WORLD, Oct. 8] missed the point. It questioned whether the unique capitalistic system, which has enabled the colony to prosper, can survive until the changing of the guard in 1997. Nothing destroys capitalistic enterprises more effectively than fear, well-founded or not. I wonder if the prime movers in Hong Kong's commercial community will wait around to test China's promises and performance...
Ever since French Novelist Prosper Mérimée locked a lustful Navarrese soldier and a lubricious Spanish gypsy in fatal embrace, Don José and his Carmen have danced their deadly Habanera through ligh art and mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed Mérimée's cautionary tale into a supercharged epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby...
...sets off a howl of laughter in the Budapest cabaret Vidám Szinpad, where audiences flock to see Go Hungarians, a comedy revue with a heavy dash of political seasoning. In the nearly three decades since Soviet tanks crushed the 1956 uprising, Hungary has learned to live and prosper just within the limits of what Moscow will tolerate. Budapest presents ample evidence of the cautious changes that have made Hungary's 11 million people the most Westernized and best fed in the Soviet bloc...