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Smiling broadly and looking dapper in a powder blue shirt, pin-striped suit and bright red tie, Renault ceo Carlos Ghosn doesn't look like your typical corporate hatchet man. Back in 1999, however, Ghosn was dubbed the "samurai" and "cost killer" at Nissan Motor in Japan. As the newly appointed president, he began closing plants, slashing over $20 billion in debt, and eliminating over 20,000 jobs to turn the moribund company profitable. Many observers - especially unions - expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year business plan for Renault, which...
...Lawrence H. Summers’ presidency comes to a close, the market for Che Guevara-styled t-shirts bearing Summers’ visage is just heating up. Last spring, Aaron J. Mowery ’08 and John M. Souther ’07 created the iconic t-shirts, which scream “Viva El Presidente Summers.” And they are now reaping the benefits of renewed interest in their design. “Demand has been skyrocketing,” Mowery said. “We can’t keep up with...
...like objects. Additionally—and more importantly—I attracted an entirely new breed of men. Generally, I only attract men with oozing lesions on their faces, who want to give me pencils when I do not need them. But, empowered by leggings, archetypal Che Guevara t-shirt-sporting, tight jeans-wearing, Jesus-haired smokers came flocking, giving me coffee solicitously, helping me with my books, and saluting me while I sauntered down the street. Perhaps it was the fact that they could see the outline of my underwear. But possibly it was the fact that the leggings...
Piasta initially comes off as your stereotypical college girl: smart but unwise, fun but prone to poor choices. However, beyond first impressions, it is clear that she carries herself as a woman. In a pressed button down shirt, she sits confidently with friends from Wellesley and Harvard. She talks of her family, her accomplishments, and her school with pride. She informs one of her male Harvard friends, whom she met through ROTC, that she has decided to try to run the Boston Marathon in three and a half hours instead of four. She talks about her days playing soccer...
...RESIGNED. ROBERTO CALDEROLI, 49, anti-immigration Italian Reforms Minister; after an incendiary TV news appearance in which he unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a T shirt displaying the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad; in Rome. Calderoli's stunt ignited violent protests in Libya. At least 10 Libyans were reportedly killed in clashes with police...