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...tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt was that good, solid employees--like whistle-blower Sherron Watkins--were shunted aside in the gold rush. "B players strive for advancement but not at all costs. This attitude is anathema to most A players," DeLong and co-author Vineeta Vijayaraghavan recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review...
...have learned not to meddle in the island's affairs around election time. Taiwan's third presidential election will be held in March?and in the two previous elections China's attempts to influence the outcome have boomeranged. After China launched its missiles in '96?prompting the U.S. to rush two aircraft carriers to the region?voters gave Lee a landslide victory. Four years later China directed its ire at presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party sprang from the pro-independence movement. Beijing branded him a "dangerous" separatist and threatened "a blood-soaked battle" to reunite with...
...beginning to attract women. "I get a real buzz out of making my films, but that's a slow burn," says Ann Parisio, a documentary filmmaker who boxed in the first women's fight in London in June. "Boxing is so physical; so immediate. It's such a rush." It's also slightly watered down: the three rounds of a Real Fight Club fight are two minutes apiece instead of three, and the gloves are 16 ounces instead of 8, which blunts the punches. There are paramedics and an ambulance waiting, and bouts are stopped if there is too much...
More than 100 graduate students are living in local hotel rooms as construction workers rush to finish reconstruction of their dormitory...
Rather than rush through the implementation of generic software, under Becella’s stewardship, Harvard’s registrar office updated their computers at a cautious pace, making sure that students don’t experience the same problems that jarred Yale undergraduates...