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Athlete is right. The right candidate will have to be used to slogging long distances with little reward; he or she may need to be an Olympic-level ego stroker. Because it grew so big so fast with so many of the same people in charge, Yahoo has become notorious for its insular us-and-them culture. Only one executive--Sue Decker, the CFO--has arrived from the outside and walked into a corner office...
...honor of the upcoming Oscars, I should list my favorite movie-music moments. (Not that Oscar knows how to reward the true Best Songs, even out of the five they select: how did "You Light Up My Life" beat "Nobody Does It Better" in 1977 or "Lullaby of Broadway" beat "Cheek to Cheek...
...First the boomerang-toss reward challenge, for which Jerri won (there's a sexual metaphor in there somewhere) a free meal and a great opportunity to attempt gracious victory by clapping both hands to her face and yelling "Oh my God!" several times. (Alicia didn't buy it - is it me, or did she actually get kind of likable this week?) And as Jerri and Amber dined on seafood and iced tea and snarked about Tina and her own clumsy emotional fakery, the remaining seven seemed perfectly happy to hunker around the fire with another starch buffet...
What about the importance of a postseason? Conference tournaments reward the teams who are peaking at the right time. And, more importantly, the games are exciting-not to mention significant. Harvard's upset over Penn last month was thrilling, but what does it mean at this point in the year? Had the game come in the context of a league tournament, then it might have actually meant something...
...Besides, don't they measure something valuable--something beyond the diligence it takes to memorize the details of the Franco-Prussian War for a history exam? Much of the debate over the SAT boils down to this: Assuming we can measure innate intelligence, do we want a society that rewards genes? Are we afraid of what kind of society that might be? Or should we instead reward only the achievements of a life--what we do with our gifts, not what we start with...