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...Arbogast Department of Geography Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Huber wrote that we lack the political will to do what is necessary to continue to use oil indefinitely. He is mistaken. Inaction ensures that oil dependence is here to stay. We lack the political will to rid ourselves of reliance on a substance that damages our environment, our economy, our society and our security, and that befouls all that it touches. Louis Pradt Wausau, Wisconsin...
Unlike many outsider CEOs, Zander kept most of the existing top managers. He did get rid of the CEO's palatial executive suite, complete with private bathroom and treadmill. With so much space, "Who do I talk to?" he asks, laughing. He now sits with the other top managers in a cluster of modest glass-fronted offices. His isn't even the largest, and his secretary gets the view. Ask Motorola executives about their CEO, and they are almost as likely to tease him--about his taste for what he calls cooked sushi or his complaints about the commute...
...faced the task of trying to deconstruct a system that has existed for over a century (including a time during which the clubs received financial support from the University), it became clear that, since we had no money of our own, the only way we to get rid of the clubs was to convince guys to stop joining and people to stop going...
...members kept the society completely secret, and election nights were particularly perilous for the clandestine meetings. When two non-members suddenly burst into a meeting, Phillips describes, the members scrambled to hide the record book. To rid themselves of one intruder’s presence, the Clubbers encouraged the girl to take a nap. Luckily for them, it worked...
...seriousness, America cannot reject the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocols and the metric system. Something simply has to give. The best method for Harvard to protest our nation’s uncouth tendencies toward unilateralism is simply to get rid of the Imperial system, or—as I’m told Bush calls it in private—“the freedom system.” Surely no one would disagree that America’s domineering and swaggering use of the inch and the pound is closely linked to our nation?...