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...With the Torino Olympics in the books, the post-Games' analysis by Own the Podium 2010 chief Roger Jackson gets under way. Each sport will be evaluated to determine what was done right and what needs to change to meet the target of 35 medals and the No. 1 ranking at Vancouver-Whistler. "Own the Podium is a business plan. It's only been in place for 14 months," says Read. "All the winter sports have said, 'Let's roll up the sleeves and get going.'" Thirty-five total medals, from 24? Fourth to first in skiing in four years...
...boycott the film. Around the time the online protest emerged, Craig, who is really almost 6 ft. tall, knocked out two teeth filming a fight scene in Prague and faced the emasculating rumor that he couldn't handle his Aston Martin's stick shift. Ex-Bonds Brosnan and Roger Moore spoke up for the new recruit. "He's a helluva good actor," said Moore, noting that no one has yet seen Craig in the role. "So why attack him?" See, Daniel, at least there are spies who love...
...Roger W. Ferguson ’73, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, announced his resignation from his position as vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors yesterday. Ferguson, who is reportedly a friend of Lawrence H. Summers dating back to the two men’s days as graduate students at Harvard, will officially step down April 28. “My service on the Board has been rewarding and stimulating, and it is now time for me to pursue other professional opportunities,” Ferguson, a former Dunster House resident, wrote...
Also found near the Pit, IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, who teaches a popular course on “The American Presidency,” looked surprised upon hearing the news of Summers’ resignation but declined to comment...
...rechristen it Macy's, and loyal Marshall Field's customers are both angry and genuinely sad. "For some chain to come into Chicago and think we're New York is totally misguided," says June Cuci, 48, who has been shopping at Field's since her childhood. Even film critic Roger Ebert lamented the loss. "I thought the day would never come," he wrote. "I am looking at my Field's charge card, which I just cut up into tiny pieces. They look like little tears the color of money...